Picturing Genocide in the Independent State of Croatia - Atrocity Images Contested Memory of Second World War in Balkans

Picturing Genocide in the Independent State of Croatia examines the role which atrocity photographs played, and continue to play, in shaping the public memory of the Second World War in the countries of the former Yugoslavia. Focusing on visual representations of one of the most controversial and politically divisive episodes of the war -- genocidal violence perpetrated against Serbs, Jews, and Roma by the pro-Nazi Ustasha regime in the Independent State of Croatia (1941-1945) -- the book examines the origins, history and legacy of violent images. Notably, this book pays special attention to the politics of the atrocity photograph. It explores how images were strategically and selectively mobilized at different times, and by different memory communities and stakeholders, to do different things: justify retribution against political opponents in the immediate aftermath of the war, sustain the discourses of national unity on which socialist Yugoslavia was founded, or, in the post-communist era, prop-up different nationalist agendas, and ''frame'' the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s.In exploring this hitherto neglected aspect of Yugoslav history and visual culture, Jovan Byford sheds important light on the intricate nexus of political, cultural and psychological factors which account for the enduring power of atrocity images to shape the collective memory of mass violence.>

Product details

• Authors: Jovan Byford, Jovan (The Open University Byford, Byford Jovan
• Assisted by: Stephen McVeigh (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.02.2020
• EAN: 9781350015968
• ISBN: 978-1-350-01596-8
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: War, Culture and Society; War, Culture and Society
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; European History, HISTORY / Military / General, HISTORY / Europe / General, 20th Century, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Genocide & War Crimes, military history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Second World War, Modern warfare, c 1940 to c 1949, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), Genocide & ethnic cleansing, Genocide and ethnic cleansing, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General