ISBN:
9781350015968
Language:
English
Pages:
vii, 212 Seiten
,
Illustrationen, Karten
Year of publication:
2020
Series Statement:
War, culture and society
Parallel Title:
Online version Byford, Jovan Picturing genocide in the independent state of Croatia
Keywords:
Konzentrationslager Jasenovac
;
Ustaša
;
Geschichte 1941-1945
;
Geschichte 1945-1999
;
Propaganda
;
Fotografie
;
Kollektives Gedächtnis
;
Völkermord
;
Nachfolgestaaten
;
Jugoslawien
;
Kroatien
;
World War, 1939-1945 / Atrocities / Croatia / Pictorial works / Historiography
;
Croatia / History / 1918-1945 / Pictorial works / Historiography
;
Ustaša, hrvatska revolucionarna organizacija / Historiography
;
Collective memory / Former Yugoslav republics
;
Collective memory / Balkan Peninsula
;
Ustaša, hrvatska revolucionarna organizacija
;
Atrocities
;
Collective memory
;
Historiography
;
Balkan Peninsula
;
Croatia
;
Yugoslavia
;
1918-1945
;
History
;
Kroatien
;
Ustaša
;
Konzentrationslager Jasenovac
;
Fotografie
;
Geschichte 1941-1945
;
Jugoslawien
;
Nachfolgestaaten
;
Kollektives Gedächtnis
;
Propaganda
;
Fotografie
;
Völkermord
;
Geschichte 1945-1999
Abstract:
"Picturing Genocide in the Independent State of Croatia examines the role which atrocity photographs played, and continue to play, in shaping the public memory of the Second World War in the countries of the former Yugoslavia. Focusing on visual representations of one of the most controversial and politically divisive episodes of the war -- genocidal violence perpetrated against Serbs, Jews, and Roma by the pro-Nazi Ustasha regime in the Independent State of Croatia (1941-1945) -- the book examines the origins, history and legacy of violent images. Notably, this book pays special attention to the politics of the atrocity photograph. It explores how images were strategically and selectively mobilized at different times, and by different memory communities and stakeholders, to do different things: justify retribution against political opponents in the immediate aftermath of the war, sustain the discourses of national unity on which socialist Yugoslavia was founded, or, in the post-communist era, prop-up different nationalist agendas, and 'frame' the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s. In exploring this hitherto neglected aspect of Yugoslav history and visual culture, Jovan Byford sheds important light on the intricate nexus of political, cultural and psychological factors which account for the enduring power of atrocity images to shape the collective memory of mass violence"--
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction : Picturing Genocide -- Evidencing 'Unprecedented Acts of Savagery' : Atrocity Photographs in Occupied Yugoslavia -- 'Gather Photographs!' : The Birth of the Post-War Visual Memory of Ustasha Violence -- Why Look at Fascism? Visual Propaganda and Revolutionary Justice in Post War Yugoslavia -- Ustasha Violence through the Prism of 'brotherhood and unity' : The dilemmas of visual memory in socialist Yugoslavia -- 'The dead open the eyes of the living' : Atrocity images after Tito -- Mobilising images Visual memory of the Second World War and the Yugoslav Conflict of the 1990s
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