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Record Nr.

UNINA9910795740303321

Autore

Komnenović Dora

Titolo

Reading between the lines : reflections on discarded books and sociopolitical transformations in (post-)Yugoslavia / / Dora Komnenović

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stuttgart : , : Ibidem-Verlag, , [2022]

©2022

ISBN

3-8382-7643-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (209 pages)

Collana

Literatur und Kultur im mittleren und östlichen Europa ; ; v.24

Disciplina

025.216

Soggetti

Discarding of books, periodicals, etc

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Abbreviations and Acronyms -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Yugoslavia, Europe and the World After 1989 -- 1.1. Blooming Mythscapes, Languishing Landscapes: Eastern Europe in Postsocialism -- 1.2. The Multiple Transitions in (Post-)Yugoslavia -- 1.3. "Europe Now!" -- 1.4. A Spectre is Haunting Croatia-The Spectre of Yugoslavia -- 1.5. A for Another, B for Balkanization: Language in (Post-)Yugoslavia -- 1.6. The "Spirit of Renewal" is Sweeping Libraries -- 2. The Discarding of Books in the 1990s: A Fact, a Perception, a Metaphor … -- 2.1. My Approach to the Topic -- 2.2. The Theory and Practice of Weeding and Discarding in Public Libraries -- 2.3. Newspaper Accounts about the Discarding of Books from Croatian Libraries -- 2.4. Ante Lešaja's Libricide and Other Sources -- 2.5. Discarding in Public Libraries in Slovenia: Data and Perceptions in Comparison -- 2.6. The Discarding of Books in Public Libraries in Croatia and Slovenia during Transition: Possible Lines of Interpretation -- 3. The Afterlife of Discarded Books between Dumps, Library Shelves and Art -- 3.1. The Hedgehog in Search of a Home -- 3.2. Reusing Discarded Books -- 3.2.1. The Book as Artistic Object: the Project "Odpisani" ("The Written-Offs") at the Maribor University Library -- 3.2.2. The Opening of the Serbian Central Library in Zagreb -- 3.3. In War and Revolution: An Experimental Documentary Film by Ana Bilankov -- 3.4. The Discarding of Books in the 1990s in Croatia as an



Inspiration for Artists: Exhibition-Action "Discarded" -- 4. In Lieu of Conclusions: On Discarded Books, Memory and Dealing with the Socialist and Yugoslav Legacy Thirty Years Later -- Bibliography.