MEMOIRES FRAGMENTEES DANS L’ESPACE POLITICO-CULTUREL (POST-)YOUGOSLAVE
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https://doi.org/10.24193/subbeuropaea.2024.2.11Keywords:
(post-)Yugoslav conflicting memories, ethno-nationalism, painful pasts, memory games, historical revisionismAbstract
Divided Memories in (Post-)Yugoslav Political-Cultural Space. About thirty years after the “bloodbath” which seemed to have been putting an end to the European “age of extremes”, the memoryscapes are still profoundly fragmented within the former territory of “the country that no longer exists”, especially due to the ongoing memory wars that started in the troubled, but also “iconic” – if we think at the cultural revival – eighties. From this viewpoint, the dynamics of both the political and social memory indicates – mostly in Serbia, Croatia, and Bosnia (as the very “epicentre of violence” during the Yugoslav wars) – several patterns of continuity from the 1980s and 1990s until the present, even if there are also significant differences due to both the national specific circumstances and the respective statuses of these countries against the backdrop of Europeanisation. The article provides some relevant insights about these mnemonic dynamics – which are incorporated in contemporary cultural memory, including literature –, with a particular emphasis on the historical memory games instrumentalized within the (post-)Yugoslav political and intellectual arenas in the context(s) of the rise of ethno-nationalism.
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