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The Partisan Counter-Archive

By Gal Kirn

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The Partisan Counter-Archive

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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.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
322
Release Date:
2020-07-20
Publication Date:
2020-07-06
Publisher:
Walter de Gruyter
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
3110681390
ISBN13:
9783110681390
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
605 g
Height:
162 cm
Width:
233 cm
Thickness:
25 cm
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