Remembering Karelia

by Armstrong, Karen

• ISBN13: 9781571816504
• ISBN10: 157181650X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-03-01
• Publisher: Berghahn Books

Summary

The war years, the loss of territory, the resettlement of the Karelian population, and the reparations that had to be paid to the Allied Forces, were experiences shared by most people living in Finland between 1939 and the late 1950s. Using a family's memoirs, the author shows how these traumatic events affected people in all spheres of their lives and also how they coped physically and emotionally.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	vii
Acknowledgements	viii
A Note on Sources	ix
1. Event and Meaning	1	(18)
Inkilä, 1997	6	(8)
Community Discourse	14	(3)
The Historical Context	17	(2)
2. Subjective Meaning	19	(13)
Routines and Rituals	20	(4)
The Lutheran Church in Kirvu	24	(4)
Residual Structures	28	(4)
3. Significant Worlds	32	(15)
Topogeny	41	(4)
The Text as a World	45	(2)
4. Genealogical Narratives	47	(15)
Marriage and Alliance	49	(1)
Origins	50	(2)
A House Called Poja-Axtam	52	(1)
The Central Story: Eskola House	53	(4)
Karelian House Society	57	(5)
5. Kinship and Nation	62	(14)
Getting Married	63	(5)
Inheritance	68	(3)
Exchange and Transmission	71	(5)
6. Wartime: A National Event	76	(21)
Individual Voices and Collective Memory	77	(2)
The Civil War and Its Aftermath	79	(3)
Sivistys	82	(2)
Women and Sacrifice in War	84	(4)
Extraordinary Noted	88	(2)
Narratives and National Events	90	(5)
Patriotism	95	(2)
7. Mamma hyvä: Meaning and Value in Letters	97	(18)
Apples and Sugar	98	(10)
Living Properly	108	(3)
Rhubarb and Cultural Transmission	111	(4)
8. Towards Mythology	115	(18)
The First Evacuation	117	(4)
Experiencing Otherness	121	(2)
Back Home in Inkila	123	(2)
The Second Evacuation	125	(3)
End of War, 1944	128	(2)
Boundaries	130	(3)
9. Conclusion: National Political Culture	133	(4)
Notes	137	(14)
References	151	(6)
Index	157