History in exile : memory and identity at the borders of the Balkans
This text asks what happens to historical memory and cultural identity when state borders undergo radical transformation. Concentrating on Trieste and the Istrian Peninsula it explores displacement from both the viewpoints of the exiles and those who stayed behind
Print Book, English, 2002
Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J., 2002
History
368 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
9780691086965, 9780691086972, 0691086966, 0691086974
50748044
List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Abbreviations xv INTRODUCTION In the Shadow of the Balkans,On the Shores of the Mediterranean 1 CHAPTER ONE Mapping the Terrain of Memory 15 PART I.MAKING AND BREAKING STATES CHAPTER TWO Geographies of Violence:Remembering War 49 CHAPTER THREE Constructing the "Trieste Question," Silencing the Exodus 76 CHAPTER FOUR Revisiting the History of World War II 97 PART II.MAKING MEMORY CHAPTER FIVE The Politics of Submersion:The Foibe 129 CHAPTER SIX Narrating Exodus:The Shapes of Memory 168 CHAPTER SEVEN Remaking Memory:The View from Istria 207 CHAPTER EIGHT Balkan Shadows,Balkan Mirrors:Paradoxes of "Authentic Hybridity "245 EPILOGUE "Good-bye,Homeland "266 Notes 275 Glossary 287 Bibliography 288 Index 317