Silences and divided memories: the exodus and its legacy in postwar Istrian society

"The Istrian Peninsula, which is made up of modern-day Croatia, Slovenia, and Italy suffered from the so-called "Istrian exodus" after the Second World War. This book looks at this difficult, silenced past and shifts the usual focus from migrants to those who stayed behind and to the...

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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York ; Oxford Berghahn Books 2023
Ausgabe:English-language edition
Schriftenreihe:European anthropology in translation 12
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Zusammenfassung:"The Istrian Peninsula, which is made up of modern-day Croatia, Slovenia, and Italy suffered from the so-called "Istrian exodus" after the Second World War. This book looks at this difficult, silenced past and shifts the usual focus from migrants to those who stayed behind and to the new immigrants who came to the "emptied" towns.The research, based on individual memories, deals with silences and competing national discourses, reasons to stay and leave, hybrid border ethnic identities, and the renewal of Istrian society and its new social relations. It is a self-critical reflection on an ignored chapter of national history, which, with an empathetic approach, allows the silence to speak"--
Beschreibung:Original title: V tišini spomina: "eksodus" in Istra
Translated from the Slovenian
Beschreibung:xii, 276 Seiten Illustrationen, Karten 24 cm
ISBN:9781805390381

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