Belarus in Autoethnographic Narratives - The Art of Mercy Against Oblivion

This book offers an autoethnographic exploration of the interplay of art, memory, and resilience in Eastern Europe. This book is a valuable addition for researchers and students interested in ethnography and autoethnography, Eastern European studies, art history, cultural studies and memory studies.

List of contents

Introduction
Chapter 1. Weapon
Chapter 2. The Photograph
Chapter 3. A Batman, my Great-Grandfather
Chapter 4. Occupation
Chapter 5. Terror
Chapter 6. Education of Amyalyan
Chapter 7. Denunciation
Chapter 8. Try not to Repeat the Denial of Peter
Chapter 9. Love of Amyalyan
Chapter 10. Happiness
Chapter 11. The Crown of Thorns
Chapter 12. Women's Crusade
Chapter 13. Death
Chapter 14. Searching for the Language
Chapter 15. Bathing in Lethe River
Chapter 16. Rage
Epilogue. Clementia
Index

About the author

Victor Martinovich, PhD, is an art historian, fiction writer and playwright from Belarus. He is an Associate Professor at European Humanities University (Vilnius, Lithuania), and was a grantee of the Fulbright Visiting Scholar Program in 2024. Martinovich is the author of six fiction novels and seven theatrical plays, and plays based on his works have been staged in Hamburg, Munich, Vienna, Minsk, Innsbruck, and St. Petersburg. He specializes in Paris School artists from Belarus, the Vitebsk period of Marc Chagall, and the history of the Vitebsk Avant-Garde.

Product details

• Authors: Victor Martinovich, Martinovich Victor
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 29.08.2025
• EAN: 9781041072331
• ISBN: 978-1-0-4107233-1
• No. of pages: 206
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, European History, The arts: general issues, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Research, ART / History / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Research & Methodology, ART / Reference, HISTORY / Europe / Eastern, ART / Criticism & Theory, ART / European, ART / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945), ART / Art & Politics, HISTORY / Europe / Baltic States, History and Archaeology, Modern Period, C 1500 Onwards, Research methods: general, The arts: general topics, HISTORY / Russia / General