The article is one of the main results of the project. It contains three studies of devised theater performances, which are based on personal memories of people and / or performers. The first part of the discussions is a formal analysis of theatrical narratives and stagings of the past, as well as different techniques for staging the personal experience. The second part covers the media reception of the works. Performances widened and diversified the cultural memory of socialism and directed attention to positively evaluated experiences of socialist culture and everyday life, such as multicultural and supranational interactions in Yugoslavia. The focus on popular and everyday culture thus remains the predominant memory model for remembering Yugoslavia in theater, which can be seen as a part of wider processes of gradual reevaluation of socialist life in post-socialist Europe.
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The article is an analysis of the novel Yugoslavia, My Fatherland by Goran Vojnović and the theatre play of the same name by Ivica Buljan. The case study proved to be extremely fruitful for the analysis of media reception, as media wrote about the novel and the play over a longer period, from 2011 to 2015. This was related to the »social life« of the novel, which was extended by national awards and ultimately by the theatre performance. During this period, a key change in media perception occured. Media first addressed the novel Yugoslavia, My Fatherland, as well as the Yugoslav past, as something foreign, distant or excluded from Slovenian heritage. From 2013 to 2015, the discourse slowly shifted and the novel and the play began to be treated as something belonging to "our" history. The media coverage about the novel and the play began also to critically reassess the Slovenian cultural memory and attitude to the past. This case study confirmed that literature and theater can act as a medium of memory, but with the emphasis that it is a longer process that could only be perceived in a several years.
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The article is an analysis of three novels by David Albahari (Bait, Dark, Globetrotter), which use various literary techniques (imitation, quotations, pastiche, fragmentary narration, etc.) to question the relevance and validity of historiography and the cultural memory based on it. It is found that the author creates alternative ways of narrating the past, both on a thematic and formal level. The media reception of these works followed. I analyzed Albahari's media presence in Serbian literature from the perspective of his position in the Serbian literary field as an exiled writer who refrains from political commentary and public appearances. The social profile of the writer proved to be crucial for the media reception and the consequent social impact of his work on the cultural mjemory.
COBISS.SI-ID: 42418733
The article engages with the topic of cultural memory of industrial heritage, which is one of the main topics of this postdoctoral project. In the article, I focus on local cultural memory on East Adriatic, testimonies and memories of female workers in canned fish factories. Both women workers and their memories turn out to be very diverse, demonstrating the complexities often hidden by the general term “workforce”. Thus, I construct a typology of differences between workers that stems from (i) differences in their ethnic and regional origins, (ii) the level of education and perception of women’s “modernity,” and (iii) tensions between the socialist ideal of the "woman worker" and traditional patriarchal morality.
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