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By examining the genre of life writing through the works of Latvian writer Anita Liepa, Sandra Meškova illuminates the role of this cultural form in a post-socialist era. The production of works of autobiographical reflection, in this analysis, is a key arena for reconstructing cultural representations to correct Soviet-era inaccuracies of the past, including memories of the Second World War. A key figure in Latvia’s current autobiographical and memoir tradition, Liepa offers writings that sync the personal to the grander historical events in Latvian history, providing insight and material for cultural identity reconstructions.
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Meškova, S. (2021). The Autobiographical Prose of Anita Liepa: Tracing the Currents of Recent Latvian History. In: Pearce, S.C., Sojka, E. (eds) Cultural Change in East-Central European and Eurasian Spaces. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63197-0_10
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