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Political Imprisonment as a Part of the Intergenerational Transmission of Ancestral History by Stories
Plecháčková, Debora ; Kabele, Jiří (advisor) ; Tomášek, Marcel (referee)
The thesis deals with intergenerational transmission of stories about political prisoners of 50s. In the theoretical part the concepts connected with sociology of memory are compiled - collective memory, family (better ancestral) memory, communicative memory, and generations. Also the historical contexts of political imprisonment, of the Prague spring and of the Velvet revolution are summarized. The author then made a qualitative analysis of the interviews with two following generations of descendants of six political prisoners. The analysis showed that the communicative situations were significantly co-determined by the author's intergenerational relations to the narrators: to generation of grandparents, parents and in some cases to contemporaries. Also often found metareflections about history and destiny of people, repeated specific stories with symbolic content or mingling of big (national) and small (family) history were connected with the genre of narration adequate to the communicative situation. The interviews allow characterizing of the intergenerational transmission of stories about political prisons of 50s as the communicative memory connected with specific life situations (e.g. adolescent asking) but also limited by many barriers. When transferring family history (but apparently even...
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The Landscape of Memory of Duchcov-Bridge. The socialist Ideology in microhistorical perspective.
Pýcha, Čeněk ; Pullmann, Michal (advisor) ; Činátl, Kamil (referee)
The main point of this work are the forms of remembering collision between striking workers and the cordon of gendarme, which took place in Duchcov (North Bohemia) on 4.2.1931 and where four workes were killed. In the time of socialism in Czechoslovakia was created a complex collection of these by the state supported forms of rememembering, which we have called The landscape of memory of the Dux bridge on the ground of works of Pierra Nora and Jan Assmann. The Ananlysis of this landscape of memory is the main object of the first part of this work. The second part is focused on the involved persons, who took part on the construction of the landscape of memory and who articulated in negotiation their own individual intentions. Keywords: Dux bridge, landscape of memory, realm of memory, culture memory, communicative memory, ideology, socialism, negotiation
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