Balkan Memories Media Constructions of National and Transnational History Tanja Zimmermann

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Zimmermann, Tanja <p>Tanja Zimmermann, Universität Leipzig, Deutschland</p>, Editor.

Series:

Cultural and media studies.

Kultur- und Medientheorie

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

The Balkans.

Nationalism.

Media.

History.

Memory.

Memory Culture.

Politics.

Cultural History.

Media History.

European History.

Cultural Studies.

Local Subjects:

The Balkans.

Nationalism.

Media.

History.

Memory.

Memory Culture.

Politics.

Cultural History.

Media History.

European History.

Cultural Studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (271 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Zimmermann (ed.), Balkan Memories Media Constructions of National and Transnational History

Place of Publication:

Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2014

Language Note:

English

Biography/History:

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.

Summary:

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.

»Es ist wichtig und wunderbar, dass die Herausgeberin Tanja Zimmermann diese vielen Stimmen aus den Nachfolgestaaten Jugoslawiens zusammengetragen hat, die sich mit dem wohl zentralsten Strategiefeld postnationaler, postdemokratischer, postsozialistischer Symbol- (und Real-)politik auseinandersetzen: der Geschichtspolitik. Die 24 Beiträge [...] tun dies auf unterschiedlichste Art, dabei immmer prägnant und gut lesbar.«

Contents:

1 Inhalt 5 Acknowledgements 9 Introduction 11 Public Monuments, Memorial Churches and the Creation of Serbian National Identity in the 19th Century 33 Banknote Imagery of Serbia 41 City Identity and Contemporary Politics of Memory 49 The Long Dark Night (A. Vrdoljak) as a National Epic 57 Fragments of War 65 The Poetics of Testimony and Resistance 77 Memory and Conceptual Tropes 87 The Reality of Moving Images 95 Memory of a Past to Come 111 Their Youth is within us 121 The Role of the Media in Transgressing Cultural Identities during the Recent Past 129 Narrative Images of the Yugoslav Totality (and Totalitarianism) in the Bosnian-Herzegovinian Short Story in the Transition from the 20th to the 21st Century 139 Reflective and Restorative Nostalgia 147 The Narrativization of Memories 155 Goethe'S Oak Tree in the Western Balkans 163 Ambivalent Images of Germany in the Travelogues of Milo Crnjanski 173 Writing Art History from a National Point of View 181 Memories in Conflict 187 Monuments to the National War of Liberation in Slovenia 207 Between Controversy and Reflection 219 Tv and the End of Grammar-Based Politics: Tuman and Izetbegovi 227 The Iron Curtain in the Memory of the Serbian Newsprint Media 233 Media and War in Ex-Yugoslavia 247 Using and Misusing Historical Sources in the Media 259 On the Contributors 267

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9783839417126

3839417120

OCLC:

979634426