Fear, Honour and Shame. Horror Fictions of the 1950s and 1960s
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The article analyses horror stories and legends about a sausage factories and about a woman who killed her children at her lover's insistence, told in a small Estonian town in the 1950s and 1960s. Presenting one’s self and memories is often a strategy for altering data. Certain events or stereotypic stories of fear, dishonouring or shame can be told as first-person narratives on the condition that these do not damage the person's honour. Fear, honour and shame are terms openly or implicitly discussed in many forms of verbal art, and are also present in personal narratives.
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