Dialogue Document Without a Dialogue: Current Debates on World War II in Croatia

Koren, Snježana

doi:10.14746/pss.2019.16.8

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“…Moreover, crimes of the WWII Ustaša regime have been downplayed by prominent politicians while the ZDS continues to be openly used among radical right nationalist individuals and groups. While the HDZ has taken the shape of a more classic Christian Democratic party in contemporary Croatia, the HDZ's politics of history has been characterized by the ideology of ethnic nationalism that was particularly prominent in the early 1990s (Koren 2019). 10 "Zoran Milanović o HOS-ovoj ploči: To treba maknuti, baciti negdje [Zoran Milanović about the HOS plaque: That needs to be removed, thrown away somewhere]. "…”

Section: Jasenovac and Operation Flashmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Second, I chose the ZDS salute as my case study due to its intertwinement with post-conflict nation-building narratives and the fact that it is often instrumentalized by various actors in order to further specific political agendas, such as maintaining one-sided interpretations of the "Homeland War" (see, for example, Jović 2017;Blanuša 2017;Cvijanović 2018;Koren 2019). This is particularly evident in the context of national commemorations, and specific examples I bring forth in this study illustrate the relevance of commemorative events as an arena of political struggle.…”

Section: Design Of the Study And The Materialsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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“Ready for the Homeland” in Croatian media: Commemorations, victory, and foundation

Damčević

2023

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This article analyses the media discourse surrounding the WWII fascist salute Za dom spremni (ZDS) in the aftermath of two national commemorations that took place in Croatia in spring 2020: Jasenovac and Operation Flash (Bljesak). In spring 2020 Zoran Milanović, the newly elected President of Croatia, adamantly criticized the presence of the salute, associated with the collaborationist Ustaša regime, at the two commemorations, calling for its removal and ban. This led to heated reactions from war veterans and politicians who considered Milanović’s actions unacceptable and offensive towards the memory and legacy of the 1990s war, which triggered a wider debate regarding Croatia’s post-war national identity. The object of the analysis is the discourse surrounding the salute as it emerges in opinion pieces published in weekly and daily newspapers in April, May, and June 2020. With the salute becoming an increasingly prominent part of negotiating national identity and tailoring political agendas, investigating how it is justified, disapproved or otherwise challenged in the media is an aspect that deserves more attention. Relying on insights from discourse studies, the article sheds light on various statements that (de)legitimize the salute and consequently particular actors and actions associated with it. With the help of semiotics of culture wider signification tendencies and dominant discourse(s) upon which the national selfdescription has been built are identified. The article contributes to scholarship on hate speech and contested symbols in the post-Yugoslav space and their (mis)uses in societies struggling with traumatic legacies.

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Section: Jasenovac and Operation Flashmentioning

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Section: Design Of the Study And The Materialsmentioning

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“Ready for the Homeland” in Croatian media: Commemorations, victory, and foundation

Damčević

2023

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Archaeology and National Socialism in the Independent State of Croatia (1941–1945)

Klindžić

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Rajković

2023

National-Socialist Archaeology in Europe and Its Legacies

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Pamięć „mniejszościowa” i pokaleczona w najnowszej literaturze chorwackiej (na przykładach prozy Ludwiga Bauera, Ivany Šojat Kuči i Slobodana Šnajdera)

Dyras¹

2021

Kult. Słow.

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W artykule została poruszona problematyka pamięci zbiorowej oraz indywidualnej, na przykładzie traumatycznych doświadczeń mniejszości niemieckiej (tzw. Szwabów) w Jugosławii (w latach 1945-1990). Trwająca kilkadziesiąt lat konfiskata pamięci skutkowała utratą tożsamości, którą po 1990 roku trzeba było na nowo zbudować. Sposobem na jej odzyskanie stały się narracje literackie, motywowane pamięcią pokaleczoną przez system autorytarny. Problematykę tę poruszono między innymi w trzech powieściach, których publikacja spotkała się z ożywioną reakcją badaczy i krytyków literatury. Są to Ludwiga Bauera Kratka kronika porodice Weber, Ivany Šojat Kuči Unterstadt i Slobodana Šnajdera Doba mjedi. Pamięć, zgodnie z ustaleniami teoretycznymi Elżbiety Rybickiej, została ukazana zarówno jako koncept literaturoznawczy, jak również kategoria egzystencjalna. Powieści przywołanych autorów ilustrują, w jaki sposób literatura staje się medium i nośnikiem pamięci. “Minority” and Mutilated Memory as Depicted in the Latest Croatian Literature (in Representative Examples of Prose by Ludwig Bauer, Ivana Šojat Kuči and Slobodan Šnajder) The article deals with the issues of collective and individual memory, based on the example of traumatic experiences of German minority (so-called Swabians) in Yugoslavia (1945-1990). Decades-long confiscation of memory resulted in the loss of identity, which had to be rebuilt after 1990. Literary narratives, motivated by mutilated memory resulting from the authoritarian system, became the way to regain it. These issues are discussed, among others, in three novels, the publication of which met with a lively response from researchers and critics of literature. These are Ludwig Bauer’s A Brief Chronicle of the Weber Family, Ivana Šojat Kuči’s Unterstadt and Slobodan Šnajder’s The Age of Brass. Memory, according to theoretical findings of Elżbieta Rybicka, has been presented both as a literary concept and an existential category. The novels by the above-mentioned authors illustrate how literature becomes a medium and a carrier of memory.

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Dialogue Document Without a Dialogue: Current Debates on World War II in Croatia

Cited by 3 publications

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“Ready for the Homeland” in Croatian media: Commemorations, victory, and foundation

“Ready for the Homeland” in Croatian media: Commemorations, victory, and foundation

Archaeology and National Socialism in the Independent State of Croatia (1941–1945)

Pamięć „mniejszościowa” i pokaleczona w najnowszej literaturze chorwackiej (na przykładach prozy Ludwiga Bauera, Ivany Šojat Kuči i Slobodana Šnajdera)

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