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2024 - 2025 Society of Scholars
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Liina-Ly Roos (she/her/hers)
The Child in Nordic and Baltic Imagination: Affect of War and Cruel Everyday
In this project I trace the literary and cinematic constructions of the post-war child that challenge the traditional narratives and collective memories of war, occupation, and traumatic years of post-1991 transitions in the Baltic Sea region. The intersection of the traumatic memories and the everyday in the figure of the child enables a more complex exploration of the changing time and spaces in the fictional works of this region.