Resources on Memory in Yugoslavia

Key Historical Works

  • Caucaso, Osservatorio Balcani e. “Yugoslav Wars, Militarization of Memory.” OBC Transeuropa, 2017. Access online here
  • Aleksandar Bošković. “Yugonostalgia and Yugoslav Cultural Memory: Lexicon of Yu Mythology.” Slavic Review 72, no. 1 (2013): 54-78. Access on JSTOR
  • Brentin, Dario, And David Brown. “Of Friends and Foes: Remembering Yugoslavia in Sport Documentaries.” In Sporting Realities: Critical Readings of the Sports Documentary, edited by Sheppard Samantha N. and Vogan Travis, 135-52. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2020. Access on JSTOR
  • Djokić, Dejan. “The Past as Future: Post-Yugoslav Space in the Early Twenty-First Century.” In After Yugoslavia: The Cultural Spaces of a Vanished Land, edited by Gorup Radmila, 55-74. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2013. Access on  JSTOR
  • Nikoliæ, Dragan. “Echo of Silence: Memory, Politics and Heritage in Post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina, a Case Study: Višegrad.” In Whose Memory? Which Future?: Remembering Ethnic Cleansing and Lost Cultural Diversity in Eastern, Central and Southeastern Europe, by Törnquist-Plewa Barbara, 170-207. NEW YORK; OXFORD: Berghahn Books, 2019. Access on JSTOR
  • Zimmer, Anna E. “The Politics Of Screen Memory In Nicol Ljubić’s Stillness Of The Sea.” In German-Balkan Entangled Histories in the Twentieth Century, edited by ZAKIĆ MIRNA and MOLNAR CHRISTOPHER A., 250-66. Pittsburgh, Pa.: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020. Access on JSTOR
  • Sokol, Andia. “War Monuments: Instruments of Nation-Building in Bosnia and Herzegovina,” September 28, 2014. Access file here (will automatically download PDF).

Primary Sources – film

  • Once Brothers (dir. Michael Tolajian, 2010).
  • The Last Yugoslav Football Team (dir. Vic Janic, 2000).
  • Znam sta je Ofsajd (dir. Arijana Saracevic Heleac and Darko Sper, 2015).
  • No Man’s Land (dir. Dennis Tanovic, 2001).
  • A Perfect Day (dir. Fernando Leon de Aranora, 2015).

Primary Sources – Literary

  • Stillness of the Sea by Nicol Ljubic, 2010.

Memorials

  • Bosniak:
    • Monument for Bosniak victims on the Stražište Muslim Cemetery (Visegrad, 2012).
    • Kovači cemetary in Sarajevo (1400s)
    • Plaque in front of the National and University Library of Bosnia and Herzegovina (called the Vijećnica)
  • Serbian:
    • The Monument to the Serbian Defenders of Brčko (Brčko, Bosnia and Herzogovina, 1997?)
    • The Monument to the Fighters of Bijeljina and Semberija in Bijeljina (1998)
    • April 1st as “City Defense Day” to Serbs in Bijeljina (2012)
    • The Monument for the Honorable Cross in Prijedor (2000)