The Partisan Counter-Archive : retracing the ruptures of art and memory in the Yugoslav people's liberation struggle / Gal Kirn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kirn, Gal, author.

Series:

Media and cultural memory ; 27.

Media and cultural memory / medien und kulturelle erinnerung ; volume 27

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Manners and customs.

Politics and government.

Yugoslavia--History--1992-2003.

Yugoslavia.

History.

Former Yugoslav republics--Politics and government.

Former Yugoslav republics.

Former Yugoslav republics--Social life and customs.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xiii, 309 pages : illustrations (color, black and white) ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2020]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Foreword

Contents

Introduction: The "Primitive Accumulation" of Revisionist Memory: A Plea for the Partisan Counter-Archive

Chapter 1 The Three Impossibilities of the Partisan Counter-Archive: Politics, Art and the 'Anti-memory' of Rupture

Chapter 2 Early Partisan Photography, Film and Poetry (1941-1945): An Oath to Past and Future Struggles

Chapter 3 Continuing the Partisan Rupture by Other Means: From Black Wave Films to Late Modernist Monuments to Revolution (1960s-70s)

Chapter 4 Undoing the Partisan Counter-Archive? From Nationalist(ic) Reconciliation to the Rehabilitation of Fascism

Conclusion: Retrieving the Counter-Archive Beyond Yugoslavia

Afterword: Concrete utopia lasts forever - Branko Miljković's Yugoslavia

List of Images

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Electronic version: Kirn, Gal. Partisan Counter-Archive.

ISBN:

9783110681390

3110681390

OCLC:

1150840340