How to Resolve the Trauma of Exile?

The Estonians, Latvians, and Lithuanians who were forced to leave their respective homelands after World War II in the wake of Soviet occupation came form exile communities across world. These continued cultural traditions practices with arts becoming a medium reaffirm identities narrate experiences. But quarter century having passed since migration, 1970s became period re-evaluating this focus, often represented by topics generational conflict or inability change times. In North America, first generation Baltic playwrights Ilmar Külvet, Alfreds Straumanis, Algirdas Landsbergis scrutinized condition within works. study, I will examine narrative as trauma take into focus three works these authors representations reflecting on changing times crises belonging identity. plays also present way out tensions can be considered deliberate efforts shift discourse explore other creative potentials exile, best facilitated negotiating between old new, traumatic past, ever-changing present.