The Human Sausage Factory : a Study of Post-War Rumour in Tartu.

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Under certain conditions, some rumours, which were established as part of folklore already long ago, may become fixed in the memory and the subconscious of several generations. This is what happened with the rumour about a human sausage factory after the Second World War. In Tartu, Estonia, this rum...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kalmre, Eda, 1958-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Estonian
Publicado: Amsterdam : Editions Rodopi, 2013.
Colección:On the Boundary of Two Worlds: Identity, Freedom, and Moral Imagination in the Baltics.
Temas:
1939-1945
World War, 1939-1945 > Estonia > Tartu > Folklore.
Folklore > Estonia > Tartu.
Cannibalism > Estonia > Tartu > Folklore.
Sausages > Estonia > Tartu > Folklore.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Estonie > Tartu > Folklore.
Folklore > Estonie > Tartu.
Cannibalisme > Estonie > Tartu > Folklore.
Saucisses > Estonie > Tartu > Folklore.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Folklore & Mythology.
Cannibalism
Folklore
Sausages
Estonia > Tartu
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Tracing an old horror tale; Rumour and the post-war period in Tartu; Rumours in retrospect; Rumours and legends
  • truth, ideology and interpretation; The sources and nature of this book; Chapter 1
  • Narratives about consuming human bodyparts as a folkloric and socio-historical phenomenon; Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century predecessors; Chapter 2
  • The legend of the sausage factory: post-warimages of violence and evil; A secret room or chamber.
  • The milkmaid enticed into the ruins in broad daylight and thechild sent to deliver a letterInformants' performance strategies: the limits of understandingand mediating violence; Conclusion; Chapter 3
  • The folklore of the split society: rumoursof cannibalism in post-war Estonia; Some views of the different features of ethnocentrism; Creation of the figure of the adversary and possible symbolicsemantic models relating to the sausage factory story; Estonians and others; Estonian versus Estonian; Estonian versus Jew; Conclusion.
  • Chapter 4
  • The sausage factory rumour: foodcontamination legends and criticism of the Soviet(economic) systemFingernails in jellied meat: reality or fabrication?; The story of Paul Saks; Taboos against discussing the Siege of Leningrad; Sausage factory rumours: a criticism of the Soviet (economic)system?; The sausage factory rumour: aggression and control; Legend and humour; Chapter 5
  • On the reception of the sausage factorystory today; Legends: a source of memoirs and biographies; On the content, structure and means of describing the Tartunarratives.
  • The 'forbidden city' and forbidden memoriesThe sausage factory rumour as part of the identity of thepre-war generation; When survival becomes ordeal: informants' answers; The first narrator
  • female engineer with Christian views; The second narrator
  • farm girl and town official; The third narrator
  • construction worker and chronicler; The fourth narrator
  • chauffeur and bookseller with an interestin culture; They might come back
  • the story without an ending; Chapter 6
  • Rumour as a metaphor for social truth; Notes; List of illustrations; Archival sources.
  • Interviews, correspondence, manuscript biographiesBibliography; Index.

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