Stories of justification - stories of absolution: how families in Liberec came to terms with post-displacement heritage

• Authors: Karina Hoření
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The article focuses on how residents of the north Bohemian town of Liberec deal in their family histories with possession of post-displacement. The objects they use were confiscated from the German-speaking minority in the aftermath of World War 2. The text provides an overview of narratives of this event in the Czech public discourse and discusses how these are reflected in family stories. The study is based on three family histories collected during ethnographic fieldwork and the analytical framework is informed by memory studies and theories of hauntology.

Keywords

EN

expulsion; post-displacement; hauntology; family history

Discipline

• ETHNOLOGY: ETHNOLOGY

• Publisher: Institute of Ethnology, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Český lid: etnologický časopis (Český lid: Ethnological journal)
• Year: 2024
• Volume: 111
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 147-172
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Karina Hoření

• Český lid, redakce, Etnologický ústav AV ČR, v.v.i., Na Florenci 3, 110 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic