%0 Journal Article
%T Remembering lives, changing regimes: An analysis of Hungarian obituaries (1961¨C2000)
%A Zs¨®fia Nagy
%J Memory Studies
%@ 1750-6999
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/1750698017703808
%X The article examines the obituaries appearing in the Hungarian daily N¨¦pszabads¨¢g during the second half of the twentieth century. Positing the obituaries as activities of social memory, the article has a dual focus. First, it looks at how the authoritarian K¨¢d¨¢r-regime¡¯s metaproject of creating the archetypical socialist identity is reflected in the obituaries. Second, it examines the frictions created by the state¡¯s efforts in establishing taboos with regard to certain junctures in the country¡¯s history, and how these principles interact with practices of communicative memory. The analysis is contextualized by examples of post-socialist memories after the regime change in the article
%K death
%K grief
%K narrative
%K obituaries
%K social memory
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1750698017703808