Models of Autobiographical Narrating about Socialism between Oral and Written
Editors: Alexander Kiossev and Daniela Koleva
Published by the Institute for Studies of the Recent Past
Sofia 2017
ISBN: 978-954-28-2326-1
The research published in this volume has been supported by the National Research Fund (2008-2011).
The book series “Past Continuous” is published with the financial support of America for Bulgaria Foundation.
Content
FOREWORD: Patterns of Anxiety. The Project and its Hypothesis, by Alexander Kiossev
CASE STUDIES
1. Daniela Koleva: Socialism as a Biographical Project: Narrative Resources and Strategies
2. Ilia Iliev: Family Story as a Resource in the Narratives about Socialism 80 – 95
3. Nadezhda Galabova: Incidents and Chances: the Role of Chance in Life Stories about Socialism
4. Teodora Karamelska: Trajectories of Suffering: the “Revival Process” in the Biographical Narratives of Bulgarian Turks
5. Elena Stoykova: А Self Made in the Story of Socialism and a Socialism Made in the Story of Self
6. Nikolai Vukov: Remembrance Testimonies in Journalistic Context: (Auto)biographic Narratives, Memoirs and Letters in the Bulgarian Press of the 1990s
7. Georgi Gospodinov: The Lexicon. Towards the Discourse of Childhood and Adolescence during the Time of Socilasim
8. Galina Goncharova: Socialist Biographies of the Poet
9. Galina Georgieva: Intellectual Positions (The Hidden and the Disclosed in the Memoirs of Vera Mutafchieva and Bogomil Raynov)
10. Kristina Yordanova: The Autobiographical Self in Memoirs and Memories about Socialism (in writings of writers, scholars and cultural figures)
11. Alexander Kiossev: Living in Non-Freedom: Five Parallel Lives 265 – 301
AFTERWORD: The Structure of Chaos