Description
Book Synopsis 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.
Trade Review “The author reconstructs multiple aspects of migrations, which she places outside the national framework which is the most significant achievement of this academic work ... she focuses not only on aspects of “remembering,” but also on everything else that is shrouded in silence and yet no less important.” • Mila Orlić, University of Rijeka
Table of Contents List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Problems and Frameworks of Memory in Ethnological Study
Chapter 1. Difficult Pasts, Silence, and Conflicts of Memory
Chapter 2. The Exodus: Those Who Left, Those Who Stayed, and Those Who Came
Chapter 3. After the Exodus: The Renovation of Istrian Society, Social Relations and Heritage
Conclusion: Let the Silence Speak!
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Index
