Naslov
Contested Pasts, Contested Red-Letter Days: Antifascist Commemorations and Ethnic Identities in Post-Communist Croatia

Autori
Pavlaković, Vjeran

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Poglavlja u knjigama, znanstveni

Knjiga
Transforming National Holidays: Identity Discourse in the West and South Slavic Countries, 1985-2010

Urednik/ci
Šarić, Ljiljana ; Gammelgaard, Karen ; Ra Hauge, Kjetil

Izdavač
John Benjamins Publishing

Grad
London : Delhi

Godina
2012

Raspon stranica
149-169

ISBN
978 90 272 0638 1

Ključne riječi
Croatia, commemorations, commemorative speeches, World War Two, culture of memory

Sažetak
Commemorations (and counter-commemorations) of the World War Two antifascist resistance movement in Croatia continue to be a source of debates over both political and ethnic identities. This chapter examines the transformation of several red-letter days in Croatia during the post-communist transition, in particular focusing on the content of the commemorative speeches given at these political rituals. The new official Antifascist Struggle Day (22 June) replaced the former Uprising Day (27 July) after 1990, essentially erasing the latter from Croatia’s commemorative culture because it was considered to be too “Serbian”. The debate over these World War Two commemorations and their significance in contemporary identity construction will be examined by analyzing the discourse of the political speeches delivered at the commemorations, the polemics present in broad spectrum of the Croatian press, and field research (including interviews) conducted at the actual sites of memory.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Povijest

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