Karelia : A place of memories and utopias

Abstract My article focuses on the places of memory and utopias, on how a lost Karelia has been constructed as a utopian place in Finland after the wars of 1939-45. I start by defining the phrases "place of memory" and "utopias." Because my methodology is based on oral history,5...

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Main Author: Fingerroos, Outi
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: 2008
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spelling ftunimissourimos:oai:mospace.umsystem.edu:10355/65156 2023-05-15T17:00:04+02:00 Karelia : A place of memories and utopias Fingerroos, Outi 2008-10 20 pages https://hdl.handle.net/10355/65156 English eng eng Oral Tradition, 23/2 (2008): 235-254. https://hdl.handle.net/10355/65156 OpenAccess. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 License. CC-BY-NC-ND Article 2008 ftunimissourimos 2021-12-11T23:31:12Z Abstract My article focuses on the places of memory and utopias, on how a lost Karelia has been constructed as a utopian place in Finland after the wars of 1939-45. I start by defining the phrases "place of memory" and "utopias." Because my methodology is based on oral history,5 the terms place of memory and utopias derive their meaning from this tradition. It thus has a slightly different perspective than usual. I will present an interpretation of a utopian Karelia, which is defined on the one hand by the experience of place in exiles' reminiscences, and on the other hand by an ideological dream of the restoration of Karelia that persists in Finland.8 Article in Journal/Newspaper karelia* University of Missouri: MOspace
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description Abstract My article focuses on the places of memory and utopias, on how a lost Karelia has been constructed as a utopian place in Finland after the wars of 1939-45. I start by defining the phrases "place of memory" and "utopias." Because my methodology is based on oral history,5 the terms place of memory and utopias derive their meaning from this tradition. It thus has a slightly different perspective than usual. I will present an interpretation of a utopian Karelia, which is defined on the one hand by the experience of place in exiles' reminiscences, and on the other hand by an ideological dream of the restoration of Karelia that persists in Finland.8
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