Video, War and the Diasporic Imagination / Edition 1

by Dona Kolar-Panov

Overview

Video, War and the Diasporic Imagination is an incisive study of the loss and (re)construction of collective and personal identities in ethnic migrant communities. Focusing on the Croatian and Macedonian Communities in Western Australia, Dona Kolar-Panov documents the social and cultural changes that affected these diasporic groups on the fragmentation of Yugoslavia.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415148801
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/05/1996
Series:	Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Foreword, Acknowledgements, Guide to Pronunciation, List of Abbreviations, INTRODUCTION, 1 A SILENT REVOLUTION, 2 THE CULTURAL FUNCTIONS OF VIDEO, 3 CLAIMING A CULTURAL SPACE, 4 RE-INVENTING CROATIA, 5 EXCUSE ME WHAT IS GENOCIDE?, 6 ETHNIC CLEANSING, PLASTIC BAGS AND THROWAWAY PEOPLE, 7 MNEMOSYNE IN VCR, 8 BRIDGES AND BOUNDARIES, Notes, Bibliography, Index