IMAGING THE PAST: CULTURAL MEMORY IN DUBRAVKA UGREŠIĆ'S "THE MUSEUM OF UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER"

Photographs are at the core of The Museum of Unconditional Surrender: family albums destroyed by the onset of the war in Bosnia, personal photographs that open a window onto life between the wars and the hardships of post World War II day-to-day existence, verbal snapshots clicked-off by the narrato...

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Published in:Studies in the novel 2007-10, Vol.39 (3), p.336-356
Main Author: POPESCU, MONICA
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Art galleries & museums
Collective memory
Communism
Families
Flea markets
Memory
Metaphor
Museum exhibits
Narrative history
Narratives
Narrators
Novels
Photograph albums
Recipes
Slavic culture
Surrender
Truth
War
World War II
Writing
Written narratives
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Summary:Photographs are at the core of The Museum of Unconditional Surrender: family albums destroyed by the onset of the war in Bosnia, personal photographs that open a window onto life between the wars and the hardships of post World War II day-to-day existence, verbal snapshots clicked-off by the narrator out of the banal circumstances of her life in exile, and images in flea markets where the past is for sale. The metaphors she draws upon represent historical truth and memory systems as a combination of techniques of retrieval and inscription, a reading-writing of the past.9 Both the afterlife of family albums and the peculiar function of the reject picture highlight Ugresic's special use of the photographic medium in relation to private and public memory.
ISSN:0039-3827
1934-1512