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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2020
• VerfasserIn: Kirn, Gal,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Media and Cultural Memory / Medien und kulturelle Erinnerung , 27
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XIII, 309 p.)
• Other title: 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110682069; 9783110696288; 9783110696271; 9783110659061; 9783110704716; 9783110704518; 9783110704747; 9783110704532
• ISSN: 1613-8961
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110682069
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: 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.