Balkan Memories : : Media Constructions of National and Transnational History / / ed. by Tanja Zimmermann.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter transcript Backlist eBook Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Avdagić, Anisa,; Beganović, Davor,; Brajović, Tihomir,; Bursać Džalto, Bojana,; Ciglenečki, Marjeta,; Denić-Grabić, Alma,; Dukić, Davor,; Galjer, Jasna,; Jakir, Aleksandar,; Jakiša, Miranda,; Janković, Branimir,; Karaminova, Ana,; Kazaz, Enver,; Lešić, Andrea,; Makuljević, Nenad,; Melčić, Dunja,; Milojević, Ana,; Murašov, Jurij,; Nicolosi, Riccardo,; Novak Klemenčič, Renata,; Radojković, Miroljub,; Senjković, Reana,; Stojanović Pantović, Bojana,; Ugrinić, Aleksandra,; Zimmermann, Tanja,; Živančević-Sekeruš, Ivana,
• HerausgeberIn: Zimmermann, Tanja,
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2014]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: 1. Aufl.
• Language: English
• Series: Kultur- und Medientheorie
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (270 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Inhalt -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- National Memories -- Public Monuments, Memorial Churches and the Creation of Serbian National Identity in the 19th Century -- Banknote Imagery of Serbia -- City Identity and Contemporary Politics of Memory -- The Long Dark Night (A. Vrdoljak) as a National Epic -- Fragments of War -- The Poetics of Testimony and Resistance -- Memory and Conceptual Tropes -- The Reality of Moving Images -- Transnational Memories -- Memory of a Past to Come -- Their Youth is within us -- The Role of the Media in Transgressing Cultural Identities during the Recent Past -- Narrative Images of the Yugoslav Totality (and Totalitarianism) in the Bosnian-Herzegovinian Short Story in the Transition from the 20th to the 21st Century -- Reflective and Restorative Nostalgia -- The Narrativization of Memories -- Goethe’S Oak Tree in the Western Balkans -- Memories in Conflict -- Ambivalent Images of Germany in the Travelogues of Miloš Crnjanski -- Writing Art History from a National Point of View -- Memories in Conflict -- Monuments to the National War of Liberation in Slovenia -- Between Controversy and Reflection -- Tv and the End of Grammar-Based Politics: Tuđman and Izetbegović -- The Iron Curtain in the Memory of the Serbian Newsprint Media -- Media and War in Ex-Yugoslavia -- Using and Misusing Historical Sources in the Media -- On the Contributors