From collective memory and cultural trauma to contemporary school history textbook narration of colonial period in Lithuania
ENThis study focuses on understanding connection between cultural trauma in the aspect of collective memory and its depiction through narration in history education. In this paper, the depiction of the Soviet Period and sovietisation in Lithuanian high school history textbooks “Laikas 12”, part I and II was overviewed with the threefold theory through threefold methodological framework: hermeneutics, semiology, and frame analysis, focusing on how narration is created through language use. Textbook narration showed very clear role definition between perpetrator state (the contemporary Russia) and victim (Lithuania) through heavy usage of adjectives and figurative wording, thereby creating a continuous narration. Keywords: collective memory, cultural trauma, history narration, history education, history textbooks, colonialism, post-colonialism, Soviet Lithuania, Soviet period. [From the publication]
