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History in Exile
Pamela Ballinger
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Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Pädagogik
Beschreibung
In the decade after World War II, up to 350,000 ethnic Italians were displaced from the border zone between Italy and Yugoslavia known as the Julian March. History in Exile reveals the subtle yet fascinating contemporary repercussions of this often overlooked yet contentious episode of European history. Pamela Ballinger asks: What happens to historical memory and cultural identity when state borders undergo radical transformation? She explores displacement from both the viewpoints of the exiles and those who stayed behind. Yugoslavia's breakup and Italy's political transformation in the early 1990s, she writes, allowed these people to bring their histories to the public eye after nearly half a century.
Examining the political and cultural contexts in which this understanding of historical consciousness has been formed, Ballinger undertakes the most extensive fieldwork ever done on this subject--not only around Trieste, where most of the exiles settled, but on the Istrian Peninsula (Croatia and Slovenia), where those who stayed behind still live. Complementing this with meticulous archival research, she examines two sharply contrasting models of historical identity yielded by the "Istrian exodus": those who left typically envision Istria as a "pure" Italian land stolen by the Slavs, whereas those who remained view it as ethnically and linguistically "hybrid." We learn, for example, how members of the same family, living a short distance apart and speaking the same language, came to develop a radically different understanding of their group identities. Setting her analysis in engaging, jargon-free prose, Ballinger concludes that these ostensibly very different identities in fact share a startling degree of conceptual logic.
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Nova Gorica, Persecution, Catholic Action, TIGR, Yugoslav Wars, Collaboration with the Axis Powers during World War II, Silvio Pellico, World War I, Italian irredentism, Soviet Empire, Victor Emmanuel III of Italy, Breakup of Yugoslavia, Slavs, Bella ciao, Nazism, New Martyr, Slovene Partisans, Vittorio Sgarbi, Warfare, Hybridity, Istrian exodus, Gabriele D'Annunzio, Mario Roatta, Autonomism, Curzio Malaparte, Italianization, Chetniks, Refugee, Cultural genocide, Ustaše, War crime, Italian resistance movement, Giuseppe Mazzini, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian war crimes, Neo-fascism, Cesare Battisti (politician), Yugoslavs, Red Brigades, Anti-communism, Yugoslav Partisans, War, World War II, Italian identity, Bravi, Ethnic cleansing, Italians, Croats, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Istrian Italians, Slovenes, Istria, Cesare Battisti (born 1954), Yugoslavia, Historikerstreit, Mutilated victory, Imperialism, Italian Fascism, Rovinj, Anti-fascism, Reprisal, Slovenia, A People's Tragedy, Racism, Roman Government, Balilla, Totalitarianism, Black Legend, Erich Priebke, Superiority (short story)