The Partisan Counter-Archive (eBook)

Retracing the Ruptures of Art and Memory in the Yugoslav People's Liberation Struggle

Gal Kirn (Autor)

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2020
322 Seiten
De Gruyter (Verlag)
978-3-11-068215-1 (ISBN)

Infos

Mere decades after the dissolution of Yugoslavia, the promise of European democracy seems to be out of joint. What has become of the once-shared memory of victory over fascism? Historical revisionism and nationalist propaganda in the post-Yugoslav context have tried to eradicate the legacy of partisan and socialist struggles, while Yugonostalgia commodifies the partisan/socialist past. It is against these dominant 'archives' that this book launches the partisan counter-archive, highlighting the symbolic power of artistic works that echo and envision partisan legacy and rupture. It comprises a body of works that emerged either during the people's liberation struggle or in later socialist periods, tracing a counter-archival surplus and revolutionary remainder that invents alternative protocols of remembrance and commemoration. The book covers rich (counter-)archival material - from partisan poems, graphic works and photography, to monuments and films - and ends by describing the recent revisionist un-doing of the partisan past. It contributes to the Yugoslav politico-aesthetical 'history of the oppressed' as an alternative journey to the partisan past that retrieves revolutionary resources from the past for the present.

Gal Kirn, Technical University Dresden, Germany.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.7.2020
• Reihe/Serie: ISSN
• Reihe/Serie: ISSN
• Reihe/Serie: Media and Cultural Memory
• Reihe/Serie: Media and Cultural Memory
• Reihe/Serie: Media and Cultural Memory / Medien und kulturelle Erinnerung
• Zusatzinfo: 43 b/w and 35 col. ill.
• Verlagsort: Berlin/Boston
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Malerei / Plastik
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: critique of historical revisionism • memory of revolution • memory of revolution, critique of historical revisionism • Partisan art • partisan surplus
• ISBN-10: 3-11-068215-X / 311068215X
• ISBN-13: 978-3-11-068215-1 / 9783110682151