Affiliation:
1. Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Studies with Ethnographic Museum Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia
Abstract
The Childhood during the State-socialist Bulgaria is thematized in a plethora
of novels and auto-fictional literature, published in the last three
decades. Many of these works pose the question ?Is the past of my own
childhood a ?foreign country? for me?? This is a question very close to the
anthropological one: ?Could we know and understand our own (childhood?s)
past as insiders?? In this paper I will take a close look at the
presentations of the Socialist Childhood in some popular Bulgarian novels,
written after the Fall of Communism by authors belonging to different
generations. I will discuss them from an anthropological perspective. How
this past is presented, reflected, and as such - becomes an important part
of the cultural memory about the Bulgarian State Socialism, is the main
research question of this paper.
Publisher
National Library of Serbia