A People's Tragedy
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Anti-communism
Anti-fascism
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Autonomism
Balilla
Bella ciao
Black Legend
Bravi
Breakup of Yugoslavia
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Catholic Action
Cesare Battisti (born 1954)
Cesare Battisti (politician)
Chetniks
Collaboration with the Axis Powers during World War II
Croats
Cultural genocide
Curzio Malaparte
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Erich Priebke
Ethnic cleansing
Gabriele D'Annunzio
Giuseppe Mazzini
Historikerstreit
Hybridity
Imperialism
Istria
Istrian exodus
Istrian Italians
Italian Fascism
Italian identity
Italian irredentism
Italian resistance movement
Italian war crimes
Italianization
Italians
Mario Roatta
Mutilated victory
Nazism
Neo-fascism
New Martyr
Nova Gorica
Persecution
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Racism
Red Brigades
Refugee
Reprisal
Roman Government
Rovinj
Silvio Pellico
Slavs
Slovene Partisans
Slovenes
Slovenia
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Soviet Empire
Superiority (short story)
TIGR
Totalitarianism
Ustase
Victor Emmanuel III of Italy
Vittorio Sgarbi
War
War crime
Warfare
World War I
World War II
Yugoslav Partisans
Yugoslav Wars
Yugoslavia
Yugoslavs
Product details
- ISBN 9780691086972
- Weight: 510g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 17 Nov 2002
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Pamela Ballinger is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Bowdoin College.
