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The Partisan Counter-Archive Gal Kirn

The Partisan Counter-Archive By Gal Kirn

The Partisan Counter-Archive by Gal Kirn


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The Partisan Counter-Archive: Retracing the Ruptures of Art and Memory in the Yugoslav People's Liberation Struggle by Gal Kirn

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.

About Gal Kirn

Gal Kirn, Technical University Dresden, Germany.

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NPB9783110994957
9783110994957
311099495X
The Partisan Counter-Archive: Retracing the Ruptures of Art and Memory in the Yugoslav People's Liberation Struggle by Gal Kirn
New
Paperback
De Gruyter
2022-07-18
322
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