Izabella Agárdi Knihy

Izabella Agárdi highlights the overlooked narratives of rural women in Central Eastern Europe, focusing on Hungarian-speaking women born in the 1920s and 1930s. Through their life stories, she explores how they articulate historical change and construct their identities, revealing a mnemonic community that stands at the edge of history.

The authors address dilemmas, arguments and emotional processes that play a role when historians turn pieces of information about the past into narrative pieces of history. They describe how their work is influenced by their location, their attitudes towards historiographical trends and the sources they work with