Trauma or Entertainment? Collective Memories of the NATO Bombing of Serbia

Rácz Krisztina ()
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Rácz Krisztina: Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, Regional Science Center, Novi Sad, 10/V Bulevar Mihajla Pupina, 21000 Novi Sad, Serbia

Comparative Southeast European Studies, 2016, vol. 64, issue 4, 520-543

Abstract: This article addresses trauma, its absence, and the creation of a collective memory among the contributors to the journal Symposion following the 1999 bombing of Serbia. By examining the group’s e-mails and conducting interviews with some of its members, it explores how their shared narrative patt erns constitute a mnemonic community, and asks what are the shared cultural frameworks that create a space for collective remembering within that community. The article argues that past and current politics of memory in Serbia have been built on discourses of a victimized nation and therefore do not recognize the specific ethnic, class or gender positions of individuals as they were during the bombing. Conversely, the national discourse on memorializing the bombing fails to articulate individual experiences and commemorative practices. This article therefore aims to present and analyse some of them.

Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1515/soeu-2016-0045

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