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Reading Between the Lines - Reflections on Discarded Books and Sociopolitical Transformations in (Post-)Yugoslavia (Paperback)
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Reading Between the Lines - Reflections on Discarded Books and Sociopolitical Transformations in (Post-)Yugoslavia (Paperback)
Series: Literatur und Kultur im mittleren und östlichen Europa
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Every major socio-political change starts with some discarding.
Suffice it to think about the heaps of rubbish consisting of old
furniture, cars, busts of famous communist leaders, badges, and
books on the streets of Eastern Europe in the fall/winter of
1989/1990. Among the institutions which have the greatest amount of
experience with discarding are libraries: Counterintuitive as it
may seem, libraries (but also museums and archives) regularly
discard books as part of their job. In the wake of the collapse of
communism in Europe, stock revision was needed in libraries, but
did it unfold in a business as usual fashion or was it a bibliocide
(as it was labelled by some media in Croatia) or even the biggest
destruction of books in the post-war period (as it was
characterized by a German journalist)? When does a standard library
practice start attracting public attention? What happened in
Croatia that there is even a Wikipedia page about bookicide in the
1990s? This book approaches the issue on at least three levels
(phenomenological, discursive, and theoretical) and from three
angles (from the point of view of librarians, non-professionals,
and, metaphorically, discarded books themselves). The aim is to
offer an innovative and original interpretation of post-socialist
transition and post-Yugoslav memory while at the same time
providing an empirically founded case study of the inconsistencies
and lack of implementation of regulations in the field of
librarianship in Croatia as opposed to a seemingly more
synchronized environment in Slovenia.
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