ISBN:
1322002231
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9783839417126
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9781322002231
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource
Series Statement:
Kultur- und Medientheorie
Parallel Title:
Print version Balkan Memories : Media Constructions of National and Transnational History
DDC:
394.1092357
Keywords:
Mass media and culture -- Balkan Peninsula
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Memory -- Social aspects -- Balkan Peninsula
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Nationalism and collective memory -- Balkan Peninsula
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
This book gives an insight into the media constructions of historical remembrance reflecting transnational, national or nationalistic forms of politics. Authors from post-Yugoslavia and neighbouring countries focus on the diverse transnational (such as Austro-Hungarian, Yugoslav etc.) and national (such as Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian etc.) memory cultures in South-Eastern Europe, their interference and rivalry. They examine constructions of memory in different media from the 19th century to recent wars. These include longue durée images, breaks and gaps, selection and suppression, traumatic eve
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover Balkan Memories; Inhalt; Acknowledgements; Introduction; NATIONAL MEMORIES; Public Monuments, Memorial Churches and the Creation of Serbian National Identity in the 19th Century; Banknote Imagery of Serbia; City Identity and Contemporary Politics of Memory. Case Study: The Fortress of Belgrade; The Long Dark Night (A. Vrdoljak) as a National Epic; Fragments of War. The Siege of Sarajevo in Bosnian Literature; The Poetics of Testimony and Resistance. Anti-war Writing and Social Memory in Bosnia and Herzegovina after the 1992-1995 War
Description / Table of Contents:
Memory and Conceptual Tropes. Museums, Trade and Documents in Veličković's Konač ariThe Reality of Moving Images. Bulgarian Video Art as an Historical Source; TRANSNATIONAL MEMORIES; Memory of a Past to Come. Yugoslavia's Partisan Film and the Fashioning of Space; Their Youth is within us. The Second World War and Yugoslav Youth Magazines in the 1970s; The Role of the Media in Transgressing Cultural Identities during the Recent Past; Narrative Images of the Yugoslav Totality (and Totalitarianism) in the Bosnian-Herzegovinian Short Story in the Transition from the 20th to the 21st Century
Description / Table of Contents:
Reflective and Restorative Nostalgia. Two Types of Approaching Catastrophe in Contemporary Yugoslav LiteratureThe Narrativization of Memories. Trauma and Nostalgia in the Novels The Museum of Unconditional Surrender by Dubravka Ugrešić and Frost and Ash by Jasna Šamić; Goethe's Oak Tree in the Western Balkans. Wars, Memories and Identities in Contemporary Serbian, Croatian and Bosnian-Herzegovinian Novels; MEMORIES IN CONFLICT; Ambivalent Images of Germany in the Travelogues of Miloš Crnjanski; Writing Art History from a National Point of View. The Case of Dalmatia
Description / Table of Contents:
Memories in Conflict. Remembering the Par tisans, the Second World War and Bleiburg in CroatiaMonuments to the National War of Liberation in Slovenia. Erection, Reception and Negative Public Opinion; Between Controversy and Reflection. Memory of Marxist Historiography in Croatia after 1990; TV and the End of Grammar-based Politics: Tuđman and Izetbegović; The Iron Curtain in the Memory of the Serbian Newsprint Media; Media and War in Ex-Yugoslavia; Using and Misusing Historical Sources in the Media. A Case Study of a Document; On the Contributors
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