The paper presents places of remembrance and other commemorative practices celebrating Primorska’s resistance to Fascism, which represents one of the most important ideological constants of the Primorska region that has preserved its role even in the changed political circumstances after Slovenia’s independence. In addition to the historiography, other policies of change followed this process, including commemoration practices, anniversaries, monuments, media discourse, textbooks, museums, archives … which had a clear ideological connotation and political use in socialist Yugoslavia.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 1538511812The paper deals with the phenomenon of ideological marking, a systematic ‘coverage’ of an ethnically exposed borderland with Catholic Church art which has no match in Europe. The language of Tone Kralj, at the time when it was emerging, could also be read by the illiterate, or those – specifically, the Slovenes in Venezia Giulia under Fascist rule – who were sentenced to illiteracy. The Catholic, national and social ideas converged in a subversive creative combination and each of the churches in Primorska painted by Tone Kralj in over a half century’s time (around 50) is an irredentist, nationalistic and at the same time anti-Fascist marking of the Slovene ethnic space.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 1538510532The paper is based on the investigation of socially desirable roles for women in the private as well as public spheres during the interwar period in Primorska. Its purpose is to outline the discourse related to women’s sexual roles and place it in the specific historical context of ‘border Fascism.’ The research methodology was based on a critical discourse analysis of those texts published in the magazines Edinost and Goriška straža between 1920 and 1928 which addressed women, prompting them to fulfil various social roles. The paper offers several examples of articles addressing the female readership that can be classified into different categories, usually complementing or intertwining with one another, in which advice, the dos and don’ts for a woman as a mother, wife, political protagonist or bearer of social culture usually stand out.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 1538516676The paper focusses on the linguistic expression of certain Slovene and Italian politicians relevant to the period of border Fascism, such as Slovenians Engelbert Besednjak, Josip Vilfan and Virgil Šček, and the Italian Francesco Giunta. Based on the corpus of their political speeches we are going to analyse the key words and the basic discursive strategies of Fascist politics and of the nationalistic movements of resistance during the interwar period. In this way, the idiom of political speeches will manifest itself as an expression of the ideational/ideological orientation of their authors, revealing at the same time the palette of interwar society’s cultural values as discernible through language use. The semantic analysis of individual words and their semantic fields, as well as the analysis of discursive strategies associated with these meanings (e.g., analysis of the typical metaphorization, modification of the intensity of the meaning and the like) in the Slovene and Italian texts under study may provide interesting comparisons between semantic starting points and discursive strategies of Fascism, on the one hand, and of nationalistic and anti-Fascist movements, on the other.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 1538512580The article discusses the transformation of the urban space after World War I in the former Habsburg port-city of Trieste. Through this analysis it reveals the key role played by the newly annexed north eastern Adriatic borderland in the national symbolism of post-war Italy and it indicates how slogans and notions of Italian nationalism, irredentism and Fascism intertwined and became embodied in the local cultural landscape. The analysis is mostly concentrated on the era between the two World Wars, but the aim of the article is to interpret the interwar years as part of longer-term historical developments of the region rather than a break in its history. Looking at how monuments, buildings, and spatial planning in general had the function of ideological and national marking and how this helped to shape the nation in a multi-ethnic town, this article seeks to contribute to a better understanding of changes as well as continuities in the modern history of South-Central Europe.
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