Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Kirn, Gal

Publication

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2020]

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Details

Description

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

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

Series Statement

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

Uniform Title

Media and cultural memory ; 27.

Subject

• 1992-2003
• Manners and customs
• Politics and government
• Yugoslavia > History > 1992-2003
• Former Yugoslav republics > Politics and government
• Former Yugoslav republics > Social life and customs
• Yugoslavia

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

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

Call Number

JFE 21-2376

ISBN

• 9783110681390
• 3110681390

LCCN

2020939766

OCLC

1150840340

Author

Kirn, Gal, author.

Title

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

Publisher

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2020]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

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

Media and cultural memory ; 27.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1992-2003

Other Form:

Electronic version: Kirn, Gal. Partisan Counter-Archive. Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2020] 3110682060 (OCoLC)1179143260

Research Call Number

JFE 21-2376