Post-Yugoslav Constellations

Post-Yugoslav Constellations

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  • Author: Vlad Beronja
  • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
  • ISBN: 3110431572
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 319

Memory in the Balkans has often been described as binding, authoritative, and non-negotiable, functioning as a banner of war. This book challenges such a one-dimensional representation and offers a more nuanced analysis that accommodates frequently ignored instances of transnational solidarity, dialogue, communal mourning and working through a difficult past. Exploring a broad range of memorial practices, the book focuses on the ways in which cultural memory is mediated, performed and critically reworked by literature and the arts in the former Yugoslavia. Against the methodological nationalism of works that study Serbian, Croatian, or Bosniak culture as self-contained, this book examines post-Yugoslav literature, film, visual culture, and politicized art practices from a supranational angle. Not solely focusing on traumatic memories, but also exploring how post-Yugoslav cultural practices mobilize memory for a politics of hope, this volume moves beyond the trauma paradigm that still dominates memory studies. In its scope and approach, the book shows the relevance of the cultural memory of Eastern European citizens and the contribution they can offer to the building of Europe’s shared cultural memory and transnational identity.


Post-Yugoslav Literature and Film

Post-Yugoslav Literature and Film

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  • Author: Gordana P. Crnkovic
  • Publisher: A&C Black
  • ISBN: 1441171770
  • Category : Literary Criticism
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 313

Reveals select post-Yugoslav literary and cinema works as groundbreaking exploratory achievements of global relevance.


Uneven Citizenship: Minorities and Migrants in the Post-Yugoslav Space

Uneven Citizenship: Minorities and Migrants in the Post-Yugoslav Space

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  • Author: Gëzim Krasniqi
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1317389344
  • Category : Political Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 120

This book focuses on the relations between citizenship and various manifestations of diversity, including, but not exclusively, ethnicity. Contributors address migrants and minorities in a novel and original way by adding the concept of ‘uneven citizenship’ to the debate surrounding the former Yugoslavian states. Referring to this ‘uneven citizenship’ concept, this book not only engages with exclusionary legal, political and social practices but also looks at other unanticipated or unaccounted for results of citizenship policies. Individual chapters address statuses, rights, and duties of refugees, internally displaced persons (IDPs), returnees, Roma, and ‘claimed co-ethnics’, as well as various interactions between dominant and non-dominant groups in the post-Yugoslav space. The particular focus is on ‘migrants and minorities’, as these are frequently overlapping categories in the post-Yugoslav context and indeed more generally. Not only is policy framework addressed, but also public understanding and the socio-historical developments which created legally and culturally stratified, transnationally marginalized, desired and claimed co-ethnics, and those less wanted, often on the margins of citizenship. This book was originally published as a special issue of Ethnopolitics.


Disintegration in Frames

Disintegration in Frames

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  • Author: Pavle Levi
  • Publisher: Stanford University Press
  • ISBN: 9780804753685
  • Category : Literary Criticism
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 228

Disintegration in Frames explores the relationship between aesthetics and ideology in the Yugoslav and post-Yugoslav cinema, with emphasis on issues of nationalism, internationalism, and interethnic relations.


Race and the Yugoslav region

Race and the Yugoslav region

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  • Author: Catherine Baker
  • Publisher: Manchester University Press
  • ISBN: 152612663X
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 186

This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. This is the first book to situate the territories and collective identities of former Yugoslavia within the politics of race – not just ethnicity – and the history of how ideas of racialised difference have been translated globally. The book connects critical race scholarship, global historical sociologies of ‘race in translation’ and south-east European cultural critique to show that the Yugoslav region is deeply embedded in global formations of race. In doing this, it considers the everyday geopolitical imagination of popular culture; the history of ethnicity, nationhood and migration; transnational formations of race before and during state socialism, including the Non-Aligned Movement; and post-Yugoslav discourses of security, migration, terrorism and international intervention, including the War on Terror and the present refugee crisis.


Temporalities of Post-Yugoslav Literature

Temporalities of Post-Yugoslav Literature

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  • Author: Aleksandar Mijatovic
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN: 9781498580663
  • Category :
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 256

This book engages with the conceptual intersections of post-Yugoslav literature, focusing on analyses of postism and temporality.


Post-Yugoslavia

Post-Yugoslavia

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  • Author: D. Abazovic
  • Publisher: Springer
  • ISBN: 1137346140
  • Category : Political Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 257

This interdisciplinary examination of present-day identities and histories of the former Yugoslavia explores relationships with the social, political, cultural and historical 'facts and fictions' that have marked the different parts of the region. It shows that while nationalism remains important other social dynamics also exert a strong influence.


Temporalities of Post-Yugoslav Literature

Temporalities of Post-Yugoslav Literature

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  • Author: Aleksandar Mijatovic
  • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
  • ISBN: 149858067X
  • Category : Literary Criticism
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 257

This book examines the theoretical devices of "Yugoslav" and "post-Yugoslav" literature. The author analyzes selected literary examples from the region through the lens of a contemporary post-Deleuzean philosophy of time, extricating discussions of post-ism from traditional chronological framing.


Holocaust, War and Transnational Memory

Holocaust, War and Transnational Memory

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  • Author: Stijn Vervaet
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1317121414
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 176

Until now, there has been little scholarly attention given to the ways in which Eastern European Holocaust fiction can contribute to current debates about transnational and transgenerational memory. Yugoslav and post-Yugoslav literary narratives about the Holocaust offer a particularly interesting case because time and again Holocaust memory is represented as intersecting with other stories of extreme violence: with the suffering of the non-Jewish South-Slav population during the Second World War, with the fate of victims of Stalinist terror, and with the victims of ethnic cleansing in the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s. This book examines the emergence and transformations of Holocaust memory in the socialist Yugoslav and post-Yugoslav eras. It discusses literary texts about the Holocaust by Yugoslav and post-Yugoslav writers, situating their oeuvre in the historical and discursive context in which it emerged and paying attention to its reception at the time. The book shows how in the writing of different generational groups (the survivor generation, the 1.5, and the second and third generations), the Holocaust is a motif for understanding the nature of extreme violence, locally and globally. The book offers comparative studies of several authors as well as readings of the work of individual writers. It uncovers forgotten authors and discusses internationally well-known and translated authors such as Danilo Kiš and David Albahari. By focusing on work by Jewish and non-Jewish authors of three generations, it sheds light on the ethical and aesthetical aspects of the transgenerational transmission of Holocaust memory in the Yugoslav context. As such, this book will appeal to both students and scholars of Holocaust studies, cultural memory studies, literary studies, cultural history, cultural sociology, Balkan studies, and Eastern European politics.


After Yugoslavia

After Yugoslavia

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  • Author: Radmila Gorup
  • Publisher: Stanford University Press
  • ISBN: 0804787344
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 368

The book brings together many of the best known commentators and scholars who write about former Yugoslavia. The essays focus on the post-Yugoslav cultural transition and try to answer questions about what has been gained and what has been lost since the dissolution of the common country. Most of the contributions can be seen as current attempts to make sense of the past and help cultures in transition, as well as to report on them. The volume is a mixture of personal essays and scholarly articles and that combination of genres makes the book both moving and informative. Its importance is unique. While many studies dwell on the causes of the demise of Yugoslavia, this collection touches upon these causes but goes beyond them to identify Yugoslavia's legacy in a comprehensive way. It brings topics and writers, usually treated separately, into fruitful dialog with one another.