Minatoto pod prašanje
Subtitle: moderna Makedonija i neizvesnostite na nacijata
By: Kit Braun ; [prevod od angliski, Zora Bakalinova Atanasova]
Series: Edicija Krstopati
Publisher: Evro Balkan-press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Skopje
Language: mac
Number of pages: 483
ISBN-13: 9789989136719
Subjects: Nationalism; History
Work titles: The past in question
Description: Keith Brown examines how Krusevo's residents, refugees, and exiles have participated--along with scholars, journalists, artists, bureaucrats, and politicians--in a conversation about their vexed past. By tracing different approaches to understanding, commemorating, and narrating the events of 1903, he shows how in this small mountain town the "magic of nationalism" by which destiny is written into particular historical events has neither failed nor wholly succeeded. Stories of heroism, self-sacrifice, and unity still rub against tales of treachery, score settling, and disaster as people come to terms with the legacies of imperialism, socialism, and nationalism. The efforts of Krusevo's successive generations to transcend a past of intercommunal violence reveal how rival claims to knowledge and truth acquire vital significance during rapid social, economic, and political change.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.