Original scientific paper

https://doi.org/10.17234/SEC.29.2

Heroes we love? Monuments to the National liberation movement in Istria between memories, care, and collective silence

Katja Hrobat Virloget ; University of Primorska
Neža Čebron Lipovec ; University of Primorska

Abstract

Monuments to the WW II liberation struggle in the border region between Slovenia and Italy, namely Istria, are the mirrors of conflicting memories at the international and regional level between the two countries and ethnicities, living in the region. As material sites of official memory at the same time, monuments reflect tensions with the individual memories and persistent collective silence decades after the fall of the official memory of the previous Yugoslavian system.

Keywords

monuments; heroes; WW II; northern Istria; conflicting memories; silence; Slovenes; Italians

Hrčak ID:

191665

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/191665

Publication date:

29.12.2017.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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