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Author Ballinger, Pamela, 1968-

Title History in exile : memory and identity at the borders of the Balkans / Pamela Ballinger
Published Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2003]
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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 328 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents Introductions: In the Shadow of the Balkans, On the Shores of the Mediterranean. Ch. 1. Mapping the Terrain of Memory -- pt. I. Making and Breaking States. Ch. 2. Geographies of Violence: Remembering War. Ch. 3. Constructing the "Trieste Question," Silencing the Exodus. Ch. 4. Revisiting the History of World War II -- pt. II. Making Memory. Ch. 5. The Politics of Submersion: The Foibe. Ch. 6. Narrating Exodus: The Shapes of Memory. Ch. 7. Remaking Memory: The View from Istria. Ch. 8. Balkan Shadows, Balkan Mirrors: Paradoxes of "Authentic Hybridity" -- Epilogue: "Good-bye, Homeland."
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 288-316) and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCOhost, viewed December 21, 2018)
Subject Italians -- Istria (Croatia and Slovenia) -- Ethnic identity
Refugees -- Italy
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Boundaries
Ethnic relations
Italians -- Ethnic identity
Refugees
SUBJECT Istria (Croatia and Slovenia) -- Ethnic relations
Julian March -- History
Italy -- Boundaries -- Yugoslavia. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99014749
Yugoslavia -- Boundaries -- Italy. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99014751
Subject Europe -- Istria
Europe -- Julian March
Italy
Yugoslavia
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0691187274
9780691187273
9780691086965
0691086966