Nikoletina Bursać: The Revolution’s Vanishing Presence

• In Event: Rethinking Yugoslav Revolution III: The Revolution’s Liberation: Adjustments of Revolutionary Teleology within the Yugoslav Cultural Field

Abstract

The paper will focus on an analysis of the film Nikoletina Bursać, directed by Branko Bauer in 1964. This movie is exemplary of a specific negotiation with the Marxist revolutionary narrative: through a double gesture, it invents a new subject of the revolution, while excluding it from Yugoslav modernity at the same time. Nikoletina Bursać thus witnesses to a paradoxical positioning with regards to the authoritative Marxist discourse, which had broad consequences for Yugoslav cultural self-fashioning.

Author

• Adrian Pelc, U of Vienna (Austria)