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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.
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.
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