Sećanje na Holokaust u jugoslovenskoj i postjugoslovenskoj književnosti: transnacionalne dimenzije traumatskih sećanja na Balkanu
Remembering the Holocaust in Yugoslav and post-Yugoslav literature: transnational dimensions of traumatic memories in the Balkans

Author(s): Stejn Vervat
Subject(s): History of the Holocaust, History of Antisemitism
Published by: Institut za filozofiju i društvenu teoriju
Keywords: Holocaust; Yugoslav literature; post-Yugoslav literature; traumatic memories; Balkans
Summary/Abstract: Traumatic memories of collectively suffered evil are often perceived as a process based on competitive logic, i.e. on the idea that commemorating the suffering of a certain ethnic, religious or national group in the public space automatically denies the same right to other groups or even denies the existence of the traumatic past of other communities. However, in recent years, cultural memory theorists, mainly on the example of the connection between the memory of the Holocaust and the memory of colonialism (Rothberg 2009, Craps 2013, Silverman 2013), have begun to question this competitive understanding of memory, which in it essentially starts from the idea that public (and discursive) space is indivisible and belongs to the majority ethnic group that inhabits it.

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