Violence, Exile, and Homeland in Visual Arts in the Slovenian Diaspora in Argentina

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ID21974789
AutoresJaka Repič (0000-0003-2009-4369, University of Ljubljana, autor de correspondencia)
Año2023
Volumen12
Número3
Páginas93
Fecha de publicación2023-05-05
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaArts (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 2076-0752 • E-ISSN: 2076-0752
EditorialMDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT)
DOI10.3390/arts12030093
OpenAlexW4382449288
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas23

This article explores visual arts and literature in the Slovenian diasporic community in Argentina, founded by post-World-War-II refugees who fled Slovenia at the end of the war and the beginning of the communist revolution in Yugoslavia. Based on the ethnographic data collected among the Slovenes in Argentina and biographical interviews with selected Slovene artists, the article addresses how art and cultural production in the diaspora, imbued with social memories and themes of war, violence, mass executions in the post-war period, and exile from the homeland is encompassed in three levels of cultural policies: (a) an Argentinean framework of cultural pluralism that integrated migrant communities into the national identity and narrative, allowing them to preserve and express their ethnic and cultural backgrounds and identities; (b) a diasporic level that institutionalized specific themes important for diasporic ideologies, some explicitly related to violence, exile, and mass executions; and (c) a transnational level that facilitated the integration of artists from the diaspora into Slovenian and international “art worlds”. These cultural policies were often contradictory and required artists to shift between inclusion in the Argentinean art domain and the diasporic one, which favored partial social exclusivism

Diaspora · Ethnic group · Homeland · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Refugee · Sociology · The arts · Anthropology · Balkans: History, Politics, Society · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender Studies · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration

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