“New essays exploring the tension between the versions of
the past in secret police files and the subjects' own personal memories-and
creative workings-through-of events.
The communist secret police services of Central and Eastern
Europe kept detailed records not only of their victims but also of the vast
networks of informants and collaborators upon whom their totalitarian systems
depended.
These records, now open to the public in many former Eastern
Bloc countries, reflect a textually mediated reality that has defined and
shaped the lives of former victims and informers, creating a tension between
official records and personal memories. Exploring this tension between a
textually and technically mediated past and the subject/victim's reclaiming and
retrospective interpretation of that past in biography is the goal of this
volume. While victims' secret police files have often been examined as a type
of unauthorized archival life writing, the contributors to this volume are
among the first to analyze the fragmentary and sometimes remedial nature of
these biographies and to examine the subject/victims' rewriting and remediation
of them in various creative forms. Essays focus, variously, on the files of the
East German Stasi, the Romanian Securitate (in relation to Transylvanian
Germans in Romania), and the Hungarian State Security Agency.”
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