Kaleidoscopic Odessa : history and place in contemporary Ukraine / Tanya Richardson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Richardson, Tanya.

Series:

Anthropological horizons

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnology.

Odesa (Ukraine)--History.

Odesa (Ukraine).

Odesa (Ukraine)--Social conditions.

Ethnology--Ukraine--Odesa.

Ukraine--Odesa.

Physical Description:

xi, 280 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2008]

Contents:

1 Kaleidoscopic Odessa 3

On the Edges and Afterlives of Empires 6

A Cosmopolitan Place 15

Kaleidoscopic History 21

History in an Eastern European Borderland 24

From Textbooks to Talking Streets 33

2 Uncertain Subjects: Youth, History, and Nation 40

Lessons in History 43

Home Truths 53

On Knowing History: The Holocaust 61

Talking History, Talking Politics 66

3 Living History and the Afterlives of States 74

Remembered Lives, Remembered History 77

'Eveyone had their own war': Remembering the Second World War in Odessa 93

4 On Odessa's Kolorit and the Place(s) of Moldovanka 106

History in Place 109

Moldovanka at the Margins and the Centre 111

Courtyards and Markets as Places of Kolorit 119

Touring Moldovanka and the Performativity of Place 134

5 Walking Streets, Talking History: The Making of Odessa 139

The My Odessa Club 142

Walking the Streets of Old Odessa 143

Mapping History, Making Place 148

Disputing History 154

Odessa as Courtyard 157

Transforming Cityscape, Transforming Society 164

Walking the City, Making the Self 166

6 Betweeen Cosmopolitan and Provincial: Spaces of History and the Place of Odes(s)a 171

Spaces of History 173

The Odessa Literature Museum 176

A Jewish Capital in a Provincial Town 188

Ukrainian History in a 'Non-Ukrainian City' 197.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [241]-262) and index.

ISBN:

9780802098375

0802098371

9780802095633

0802095631

OCLC:

227509228