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Bosnia-Herzegovina and the Cultural Memory of Bleiburg

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ID6163040
AuthorsAmra Čusto (corresponding author)
Year2018
Volume55
Issue2
Pages111-130
Publication date2018-06-19
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePolitička misao (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1846-8721 • E-ISSN: 0032-3241
PublisherFaculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb, Croatia (PUBLISHER • HR)
DOI10.20901/pm.55.2.06
OpenAlexW2808929800
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited1

This article provides a preliminary overview of the perceptions of Bleiburg among Croats and Bosniaks in Bosnia-Herzegovina, as well as its role in the overall construction of cultural memory in this deeply divided post-Yugoslav state.The author explores how the remembrance of the Second World War in socialist Yugoslavia fragmented and was replaced by new, nationalist narratives among Serbs, Croats, and Bosniaks.The memory of Bleiburg plays a central role in the victimization narrative among Bosnian Croats, and their political leadership has been deeply involved in the commemorative practices related to the events in May 1945.Bosniaks, while primarily focusing on the continuity with the antifascist Partisan tradition, have increasingly opened up the question of communist crimes such as Bleiburg, albeit through the media and memoirs and not yet systematic academic analysis.The article also examines how the Bleiburg narrative is intertwined into the memory of the war in the 1990s, and more broadly how these memory politics are used by various actors in Bosnia-Herzegovina's deeply divided society

Art · Bosnian · Collective memory · Communism · Cultural memory · Linguistics · Literature · Memoir · Narrative · Nationalism · Political science · Politics · Politics of memory · Sociology · State (computer science · Anthropology · Balkan and Eastern European Studies · Balkans: History, Politics, Society · Gender Studies · History · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration

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Unique citing works1
Citations per year0,2
Citation span2021 - 2021 (1)
Citation velocityhistorical
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 1

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