Emlékezet és identitás változásának vizsgálata két memoárban
Absztrakt
Using theories of memory studies, life history/autobiography, and identity, the study compares the recollections of a rural veterinarian with those of a military officer from the Ludovika Academy, who later became a pharmacist. It examines the memoirists’ relationship with society and the political system concerning specific events; the ways in which they describe traumatic experiences in memoirs written decades later, and how they construct their meaning in autobiographical memory. Other questions include: to what extent does autobiographical memory dissent from or approximate the collective memory in terms of both specific events and the memoirists’ views of history and society? The study aims to examine these narratives not in relation to each other, but in relation to our socio-historical knowledge of the Horthy, Rákosi, and Kádár eras and the memory topoi associated with them, presenting the lived experiences of the most momentous events in public history.