Balkan Memories

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.

Auteur

Tanja Zimmermann (PhD in art history and Slavic studies) teaches East-European literature at the University of Constance (Germany). Her research interests are literature, art and media in Russia, South-Eastern Europe and Poland in the 19th and 20th century.

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This book gives an insight into the medial constructions of remembrance, which go hand in hand with transnational, national or nationalistic forms of politics. Authors from post-Yugoslavia and other countries focus on the diverse transnational and national memory cultures in South-Eastern Europe, their interference and rivalry. They inquire into constructions of memory in different media from the 19th century to the recent wars. These involve longue durée, breaks and gaps, selection and suppression, traumatic events and the loss of memory, nostalgia, false memory, reactivation, rituals and traces of memory etc.