Professional paper
Tito in the dialectic of contemporary official culture of memory in Serbia
Aleksa Vukašinović
Abstract
This paper considers Tito as a phenomenon of the culture of memory in contemporary Serbia. Tito is taken as a term used by the Serbian culture of memory, and which as a historical figure carries certain symbolic values that persist in modern times, to which the official culture of memory responds differently and interprets it differently. The first part of the paper reflects on the very notion of memory, then the culture of memory, and time and its social concept. The construction of the official memory of Tito is followed by the analysis of secondary school textbooks, which are the main channel for the creation of official memory in contemporary Serbia. The aim of the paper is to show how the official memory of Tito is changing in accordance with the needs of the modern official culture of memory.
Keywords
memory, culture of memory, individual memory, collective memory, Tito, titoism, social time
Hrčak ID:
253237
URI
Publication date:
5.3.2021.
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