Balkan Memories: Media Constructions of National and Transnational History

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Tanja Zimmermann
transcript Verlag, Mar 31, 2014 - Social Science - 270 pages
This book gives an insight into the media constructions of historical remembrance reflecting transnational, national or nationalistic forms of politics. Authors from post-Yugoslavia and neighbouring countries focus on the diverse transnational (such as Austro-Hungarian, Yugoslav etc.) and national (such as Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian etc.) memory cultures in South-Eastern Europe, their interference and rivalry. They examine constructions of memory in different media from the 19th century to recent wars. These include longue durée images, breaks and gaps, selection and suppression, traumatic events and the loss of memory, nostalgia, false memory, reactivation, rituals and traces of memory.
 

Contents

Acknowledgements
9
Introduction
11
NATIONAL MEMORIES
31
TRANSNATIONAL MEMORIES
109
MEMORIES IN CONFLICT
171
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Tanja Zimmermann, art historian and literature scientist/slavicist, is professor of history of art with a focus on East, Central East and South East Europe at the University of Leipzig. Her main research interests include memory cultures, art policy, cultural transfer between East and West Europe, Russian Avant-garde art, art in communism, comics.

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