The creativity of trauma representation through monuments
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Based on a multimodal discourse analysis, the article explains how non-martyrological monuments dedicated to the anti-Soviet resistance reflect emerging tensions regarding the role of certain partisan movement figures during the Holocaust. The search for an answer to this question is encouraged by public debates sparking off every now and then on the role of some participants in the partisan movement during the Nazi occupation and, more specifically, during the Holocaust. The article links monuments as creative collective memory practices to the theoretical perspective of ontological security with the view that monuments are one of the practices creating a narrative that supports ontological security and connects the past (collective memory) with the present and the future.
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