The Ship Yugoslavia This article first appeared in the Yugobulletin newsletter. * I’ve been back in the US long enough that the semester in Ljubljana, the first of my doctoral studies, seems like a memory of a different life. I survived the reverse culture shock—still a thing no matter how many times I return. I […]
Sources relating to (Yugoslav) nonalignment and the Nonaligned Movement.
Ugrešić embodied anti- and non-nationalist people who, since the disintegration of their country, Yugoslavia, found themselves in a kind of an existential vacuum.
For years, Vraca, like other monuments to the People’s Liberation Struggle, instead of being a place of memory became a place of oblivion.
The grim thought accompanied my father on that chilly April morning in 1999. An absurd wartime thought. The same absurdity that had turned a bus ride into a matter of life and death.
After Yugoslavia’s dissolution, a large number of places named after Tito were renamed, beginning with cities bearing his name’s adjective.
Even though places named after Tito were all renamed at the end of the last millennium, a number of squares, roads, and streets have retained the names of the former Yugoslav leader. Is it, from today’s perspective, nostalgia, shame, or a part of history we can’t simply erase?
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The episode is just the latest example of America’s presence in the region, which dates back to World War II and particularly socialist Yugoslavia, which, some say, wouldn’t have survived without American loans, grants, and barters.
Belgrade Mayor has proposed that Tito’s grave be relocated from the House of Flowers to Kumrovec.
Post-Yugoslav literature is burdened with collective memory, but it also has the ability to look in the mirror of history. If something good has come from all the terrible events that happened in ex-Yugoslavia and to it, it is that [they] have provoked an interest in the literature of my region.
Good art gives us a lexicon for our own feelings and experiences. It gives us back moments of our own life, expressed more poignantly. And no one was better at that than Balašević.
Reviewing the week of 12-18 August (#33) and previewing the week of 19-25 August (#34) of 2024.
Reviewing the week of 5-11 August (#32) and previewing the week of 12-18 August (#33) of 2024.
Reviewing the week of 29 July-4 August (#31) and previewing the week of 5-11 August (#32) of 2024. News roundup, today in history, observances, birthdays/deaths.
The 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris have begun and one week into the quadrennial event story lines abound. In the former Yugoslavia, Paris 2024 harkens back to Sarajevo 1984.
Reviewing the week of 22-28 July (#30) and previewing the week of 29 July-4 August (#31) of 2024.
Reviewing the week of 15-21 July (#29) and previewing the week of 22-28 July (#30) of 2024.
Yugoslavia lives as a metaphysical symbol, a cultural relic, a value label, political subversion, and nostalgia for or collective memory of a better past.
