The Human Sausage Factory : a Study of Post-War Rumour in Tartu.
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| Author / Creator: | Kalmre, Eda, 1958- |
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| Imprint: | Amsterdam : Editions Rodopi, 2013. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (185 pages). |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | On the Boundary of Two Worlds: Identity, Freedom, and Moral Imagination in the Baltics ; v. 34 On the Boundary of Two Worlds: Identity, Freedom, and Moral Imagination in the Baltics. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11204865 |
Table of Contents:
- 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.