The Legacy of Serbia's Great War
Politics and Remembrance
Alex Tomić
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The Legacy of Serbia's Great War
Politics and Remembrance
Alex Tomić
About This Book
In the winter of 1915, following the invasion of Serbia by the Central Powers, the Serbian Army retreated across the mountains of Albania and Montenegro together with thousands of civilians. Around 240, 000 lost their lives. Today, the story of the retreat is little known, except in Serbia where it is represents the heroic Serbian sacrifice in the Great War. In this book Alex Tomi? examines the centenary events memorializing the First World War with the retreat at its core, and provides a persuasive account of the ways in which the remembrance of Serbian history has been manipulated for political purposes. Whether through commemorations, ceremonies, or grass- root initiatives, she demonstrates how these have been used as distractions from the more recent unexamined past and in doing so provides an important new perspective on the cultural history of commemoration.
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Table of contents
- The Legacy of Serbia’s Great War
- Contents
- Figures
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I. The Main Event
- Chapter 1. From the Ottomans to the Triple Invasion
- Chapter 2. From Golgotha to the Resurrection
- Part II. The Script
- C H A P T E R 3
- Chapter 3. There Is No Time Like the Past
- Chapter 4. The Great War in Music and Museums
- Part III. The Scenography
- Chapter 5. Past as ‘Work in Progress’
- Chapter 6. Reframing the Present through Tributes and Headlines
- Part IV. The Chorus
- Chapter 7. Sites of Memory
- Chapter 8. Fictive Kinships of Resurgent Remembrance
- Conclusion
- Appendix
- Bibliography
- Index