Naslov
Performing Yugonostalgia as post-memory: Nostalgia in N images

Autori
Letunić, Ana

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Ocjenski radovi, diplomski rad, diplomski

Fakultet
School of Theatre & Performance Studies and Cultural & Media Policy Studies

Mjesto
Coventry, West Midlands, UK

Datum
20.12

Godina
2012

Stranica
46

Mentor
Silvija Jestrović

Ključne riječi
national identity, migrating histories, nostalgia, post-memory

Sažetak
This dissertation is the result of a module of practice-as- research, where the outcome was a performance Nostalgia in N images based on post-memory images that evoke Yugonostalgia. The starting point of the research was the interest in the phenomenon of nostalgia for Yugoslavia among younger generations that do not have a lived experience of the former country. While most authors dismiss nostalgia as ‘false’ and ‘irrelevant’, my argument is that Yugonostalgia can have an emancipatory potential since, during the 1990’s, the former Yugoslav countries underwent the ‘terror of forgetting’ in order for new nationalisms to arise and most of the socialist memory was ‘confiscated’. In the first part of the dissertation, I provide the reader with the historical context surrounding Yugoslavia, the formation of the pan-Yugoslav identity and its decay. Another argument I present is that the project of Yugoslavia in itself was a nostalgic idea since it contained desires of a viable supranational unity. Further on, I analyze the concepts surrounding nostalgia and post-memory, mostly relying on work by Svetlana Boym and Marriane Hirsch. After reflecting on the rise of regional artworks based on post-memory, I proceed with the presentation of my performancebased- practice process. Its particularity lies in the narrative transition from macro to micro histories and the questioning of the East/West binary.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Interdisciplinarne društvene znanosti, Interdisciplinarne humanističke znanosti, Kazališna umjetnost (scenske i medijske umjetnosti)

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