The long winter of 1945 : Tivari / Anna Di Lellio and Dardan Luta ; art by Dardan Luta.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Di Lellio, Anna, author.

Luta, Dardan, author, artist.

Standardized Title:

Dimri i gjatë i vitit 1945 Tivari. English

Language:

Albanian

English

Subjects (All):

World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Comic books, strips, etc.

World War, 1939-1945.

World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Albanian--Comic books, strips, etc.

Massacres--Montenegro--Bar--Comic books, strips, etc.

Massacres.

Albanians--Crimes against--Yugoslavia--Comic books, strips, etc.

Albanians.

Albanians--Crimes against.

Atrocities.

Bar (Montenegro)--History, Military--20th century--Comic books, strips, etc.

Bar (Montenegro).

Montenegro--Bar.

Yugoslavia.

Genre:

graphic novels.

Comics (Graphic works)

Graphic novels

Historical comics

Military history

Nonfiction comics

War comics

Graphic novels.

Nonfiction comics.

War comics.

Historical comics.

Physical Description:

xxv, 151 pages : chiefly illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm

Edition:

English edition.

Place of Publication:

Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2023]

Language Note:

Originally published in Albanian as Dimri i gjatë i vitit 1945 : Tivari in association with the Kosovo Oral History Initiative.

Summary:

"In March 1945, at the end of the Second World War, hundreds of unarmed Albanian recruits were massacred by Yugoslav partisans. For too long, the memory of this massacre in Tivari - a coastal town of Montenegro - has been suppressed by the Yugoslav state and kept alive in Kosovo only in informal versions, nurtured and retold in a spirit of ethnic mistrust and hatred. Told in graphic format, The Long Winter of 1945 presents an oral history of this traumatic event based on interviews with surviving participants. Archival documents and historical research provide context, placing the massacre in the broader setting of forced mass mobilization to fight, as well as the last pocket of Italian resistance. The book reveals that the massacre was not a forgettable incident of history, as the censored or sanitized official narrative of Yugoslav history would like it to be remembered, nor was the planned act of genocide, as described by informal oral versions, repeated with undertones of fear and anger, and passed along as underground collective memory. The Long Winter of 1945 places its history into the broader context of Yugoslavia's war for liberation, and the civil war between Serbs and Albanians. Bringing this traumatic event to the fore, this beautifully illustrated graphic novel rescues the memory of the victims and survivors from political exploitation."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction

Prologue

Çubrel

Prizren

Shkodra

Tivari.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Online version: Di Lellio, Anna. Dimri i gjatë i vitit 1945 Tivari. English. Long winter of 1945.

ISBN:

9781487543280

148754328X

9781487543297

1487543298

OCLC:

1371219832

Publisher Number:

90102506499