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The Partisan Counter-Archive

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This interdisciplinary series addresses the relation between media and cultural memory. Its publications study how media construct, store, and disseminate memory. The series' focus is on different ...
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  • 18 July 2022
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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.
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Price: $27.99
Pages: 322
Publisher: De Gruyter
Imprint: De Gruyter
Publication Date: 18 July 2022
ISBN: 9783110994957
Format: Paperback
BISACs: ART015100 ART / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945), LIT000000 LITERARY CRITICISM / General, SOC000000 SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
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Gal Kirn, Technical University Dresden, Germany.