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2022, Fotografija
An eerie mugshot displaying the hollow-eyed visage of an incarcerated helmsman in prison attire waited 63 years at the Národní archiv in Czechoslovakia to be discovered. Puzzling together the chronology proves to be a bit of a challenge, as the photo of his granddaughter’s first school day in Vienna turns up in a cigar box with old family relics. Did Stjepan move to Austria straight after being released in a spy exchange between Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia? Later in life, Milica wouldn’t retain the German language, nor could she remember why she was sent off to live with her grandparents in a foreign country. Perhaps a clue might be found in a yellowed photo from the Adriatic that recalls the memory of summer 1987 when her son, Robert, joins his grandparents at a resort for war invalids in Montenegro. Playing with the relationships between image and knowledge and past events and their documentation, photographs from personal and public archives are reframed and reimagined. Remembrance and fanciful reveries delineate the past as part of a personal and interpretive claim on history, in this case, postwar Yugoslavia. Throughout the stories, the mysterious number 5 reappears.
Comparisons and discourses: essays on comparative literature and theory, red. E. Kledzik, Prace Instytutu Filologii Polskiej Uniwersytetu im. Adama Mickiewicza, Biblioteka Porównań, t. 7
Memory and Oblivion versus the Yugoslavian Heritage. The Case of Serbian and Croatian Emigrant Literature – a Preliminary Diagnosis2017 •
Studies in European Cinema
'Remember me, but ah! forget my fate': Goran Rebic's picture of'Balkan Vienna'in Jugofilm (1997)2007 •
This article reads Jugofilm as an intelligent and engaging approach to presenting fictionalized human stories in the aftermath of the break-up of Yugoslavia. The title term is one of Rebić's starting-points for presenting the ways in which political differences between Croats, Serbs and Bosnians play out in a Yugo-Viennese community. A central, traumatic memory determines the protagonist's inability to cope in the present and to come to terms with what he has experienced in his warring Heimat. Sascha's struggles with memory and his ultimate death is read allegorically as the demise of Yugoslavia, and Rebić's film is analysed for its contribution towards the cultural memorialization of Yugoslavia and towards explaining some of the facets determining this particular group of migrant identities in contemporary Austria.
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For decades, World War II has been commemorated throughout Europe so as to prevent the return of war, and the European integration process was launched to ensure a lasting peace. After the collapse of communist regimes, this political project suffered a dramatic setback with the dissolution of Yugoslavia. Wiping out the illusion that war, and genocide could never happen again in Europe, the breakup of Yugoslavia showed how the very memory of violence can be used to prepare the ground for a new carnage. This volume collects the speakers’ contributions to the conference organised by Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso to reflect upon memory politics moving from the paradigmatic case of today’s Balkans.
Serbian Studies: The Journal of the North American Society for Serbian Studies
Frozen by the Lens: Photography, Genocide and Memory Culture in Socialist Yugoslavia2019 •
Hungarian Studies Review
Historical Trauma and Multidirectional Memory in the Vojvodina: László Végel's Neoplanta, avagy az Igéret Földje and Anna Friedrich's Miért? Warum?2018 •
This article examines memory culture and its evolution in socialist Yugoslavia. In particular, it considers how the postwar Yugoslav state aimed to come to terms with the mass intercommunal violence precipitated by the occupation and the rule of various local fascist organizations. Using the case study of the Ustasha atrocities in Glina in the spring and summer of 1941, two of the most infamous massacres in wartime Croatia, it explores how the authorities in the postwar federal Republic of Croatia aimed to create a common narrative which stressed the state's guiding principles of brotherhood and unity while addressing the fact that the massacres had been committed by members of one ethnic group (the Croats) against members of another (the Serb minority). It also examines how artists and writers were mobilized in the campaign to make sense of genocide and the fratricidal slaughter of the 1940s, in particular through creating a sharp division between "Ustasha criminals" on one side and the mass front of "patriotic Croatian working people" on the other. The article uses the moving testimony by the sole apparent survivor, Ljubo Jednak, and the haunting photograph said to depict the Glina victims shortly before their mass execution to unravel how it was that this specific war crime came to acquire such a central place in the canon of Yugoslav historiography of the Second World War as a meta-symbol of the horror of fascist occupation. The article argues that while the official narrative about the occupation of wartime Croatia and the genocide committed by the Ustasha regime appeared to be hegemonic, in reality from the outset there was significant contestation about what had happened in Glina and the meanings that were attached to the massacres. Despite the efforts of the party to control and mediate the terms of the memory politics, especially within the Serb community, they were never totally successful. Moreover, since the narrative about the Second World War was closely connected to the legitimation of the revolution, national liberation struggle and the postwar retributive purges, many of the core tenets of Yugoslav memory politics, as the example of Glina illustrates, did not remain monolithic but changed over time to reflect broader ideological and national changes within the Yugoslav federation. This particularly became apparent in the late 1960s in the wake of the mass national movement in Croatia. By the time armed conflict broke out in the early 1990s between the newly-independent Croatian state and its Serb minority, the memory politics of the Glina atrocity which had sought to bring Serbs and Croats together as Yugoslavs and overcome national enmity was already helping to divide them along ethnic lines. As such, the memory politics of Glina represented a metaphor for the rise and fall of the Yugoslav ideal. Serbs and Croats, like the victims in the photograph, were frozen by the lens of history, increasingly separated by different conceptions of the past and the meanings that should be taken from it. Keywords: Glina, photography, genocide, memory culture, Ustasha regime, wartime Croatia, socialist Yugoslavia
Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture
Outside of Memories We Belong, Women of YugoslaviaThis article addresses the issues surrounding the Yugoslav Civil War by offering my personal narrative in relation to loss and disappearance resulting from the exposure to war and sanctions in the nineties and the “Merciful Angel“ operation of the bombing of Serbia by NATO in 1999. It thus focuses on the female interpretation of people, ways of life, buildings and human artifacts belonging to the historical period of communist Yugoslavia which once were, yet no longer remain. The work with archives, especially the photographs which originate from my personal family possession, brings closer these ghosts of the past times to the present moment. At the same time, photography is a means to investigate the position and treatment of women during and after the period of Yugoslavia, their efforts and struggles for emancipation. The usage of photography as a visual narrative allows an insight into the lives of women during communism through the lens of my closest female family members. The ...
Don't allow history and memory to be forgotten!" Re-emigrants from Yugoslavia as a memory community of an alternative collective memory. Národopisná revue 29, 5, 2019, s. 29–40.
"Don't allow history and memory to be forgotten!" Re-emigrants from Yugoslavia as a memory community of an alternative collective memory.2019 •
The study follows the trajectory of a group of re-emigrants who took an active part in the partisan (antifascist, or Communist) resistance movement during the Second World War in Yugoslavia and who established their own partisan unit, the Czechoslovak Brigade of Jan Žižka. After the war, partisans with Czechoslovak citizenship decided to answer the call from Czechoslovakia, and they and their families settled the areas from which the old German residents had been expelled. After their arrival, the state welcomed them as antifascist heroes (freedom fighters), but at the local level, they were accepted as undesired “outlanders”, “other Czechs”, or “Yugoslavians”. After Cominform issued its first resolution, the regime of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia stigmatized them as being “unreliable for the state”. After the fall of the Communist regime in 1989, they found themselves in a position of memory bearers, a position that did not correspond to the contemporary hegemonic anti-Communist narrative. Due to this fact, the second generation of re-emigrants in particular feels that their ancestors have been unjustifiably erased from history, their legacy and imagined family honour unrecognized. At their own commemorative meetings, they clearly demonstrate their dissatisfaction with the contemporary exclusion of their partisan ancestors from the post-Communist national narrative. I argue in the text that the perceived non-ethnic otherness in the past alongside their historical experience and the contemporary post-Communist politics of memory led the re-emigrants to the formation of their own memory community (and thus identity).
Rocznik Instytutu Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej
Memory Politics in the Former Yugoslavia2020 •
This article provides an overview of some of the most prevalent topics in post-Yugoslav memory politics as well as on some of the scholars working on these issues, focusing on the commemorative practices of the Second World War and the wars of the 1990s. Thirty years after the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia’s disintegration, the discourse of post-war memory politics continues to dominate nearly all of the successor states, even though two of them have seemingly left the past behind to join the European Union. While the wars of the 1990s created an entirely new memoryscape in the region, they also radically transformed the way in which each country commemorated the Second World War. Although the article examines in-depth the collective remembrance of sites of memory, such as Jasenovac, Bleiburg, and Knin, trends across the broader region are also addressed. The work of young scholars, as well as experienced researchers, who have introduced innovative approaches in memory st...
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Martinet, A. (ed.): Tratado del lenguaje 3. Buenos Aires, Nueva Visión, págs. 9-42.
La adquisición del lenguaje por el niño2023 •
Limes XXIIII. Proceedings of the 24th International Congress of Roman Frontier Studies, Serbia 2018
The Roman fortress and the detachment of Legio VII Claudia from Cioroiu Nou, Dolj County, Romania2023 •
Sexual Health & Compulsivity
Problematic Pornography Use and Mental Health: A Systematic Review2024 •
Educação: Políticas, Estrutura e Organização 9
O Estágio Curricular Supervisionado Na Formação Inicial Do Professor De Matemática2019 •
Case Reports in Medicine
Histoplasmosis Presenting as Granulomatous Hepatitis: Case Report and Review of the Literature2014 •
Systems & Control Letters
Multi-target linear-quadratic control problem and second-order cone programming2004 •
Global Journal of Science Frontier Research: A. Physics and Space Science. 20(10)2020.9-17.
On the Dialectic Unity of Evolution and Involution2020 •
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