Repetition, Revision, or Recycling of SFRY Communist History/History of SFRY Communism during the 90s?

• In Event: Transgression, Progression, Regression?: The Challenges of the Post-Yugoslav Cultural Space in Post-Communist Times

Abstract

The paper discusses novels Premeditated Murder (Ubistvo s predumišljajem, 1993) and Fathers and Forefathers (Očevi i oci, 1985) by Slobodan Selenić and film Premeditated Murder (Ubistvo s predumišljajem, 1994), directed by Gorčin Stojanović to indicate a complex, layered and contradictory legacy of the Yugoslav identity in the (post)communist context. What communism really was? And what was Yugoslavia? After the breakup of SFRY in early 90s of the twentieth century communism and Yugoslavia became, simultaneously, two undesirable concepts in post-Yugoslav reality. They also remained equally controversial - they still have retained their ability to cause debate and separate people into supporters and opponents. The paper try to show how the legacy of the Yugoslav identity is re-examined in the context of the wars in the former Yugoslavia when (post) Yugoslav authors were faced with the defeat of the communist revolution and forced to examine once again seemingly unquestionable (and prevailingly patriarchal) norms of Yugoslav communist past.

Author

• Tatjana Rosic Ilic, Singidunum U (Serbia)