Travelling Memory and Memory of Travel in Estonian Women’s Deportation Stories

Abstract

This chapter explores Estonian women’s deportation and Gulag narratives within the framework of trauma theory and engages with the complex polemic of transcultural and located memory. This chapter places Baltic women’s deportation narratives in cultural context and temporal frames. Travelling and transcultural memory emerge as an important aspect of representing the deportation and Gulag experience, from the extensive geographical relocations of deportees on a mass scale to the temporal trajectories of the memoirs. The chapter also explores ‘the travel’ of memorial records and artefacts concerning deportation that extend beyond the framework of national remembrance.