"We are all deportees". The trauma of displacement and the consolidation of national identity during the popular movement in Lithuania

ENThe idea that the return of deportee memory contributed to the consolidation of national identity is now taken for granted, a standard paragraph in school history books, but the actual process by which this took place has not been closely researched. This chapter takes a closer look at when and how the memoirs of individual deportees were published and received by the community, analyzes the presentation and interpretation of the deportee texts, and seeks to demonstrate how they were assimilated into a discourse of trauma based on a myth of universal deportation, that is, the notion that all Lithuanians were deported in one way or another, and that they were deported not only from their homeland but from their language, their culture and deracinated from the land. [...] In particular, I argue that the shape of this memory during the critical years of 1988–91 derived not only from the texts written by the deportees themselves, but also and more directly from the metanarratives about the deportations crafted by leading members of the Lithuanian Writers’ Union. [p. 120].

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