METAMORFOZE PRAZNIKA: OBILJEŽAVANJE PRVOG ZASJEDANJA ZAVNOBIH-a (1983 - 1988 - 1993)
THE METAMORPHOSIS OF HOLIDAYS: THE MARKING OF THE FIRST SESSION OF ZAVNOBiH (1983-1988-1993)

Summary/Abstract: Through the writing of Sarajevo’s newspaper Oslobođenje the author compared the mode of celebration of a statehood holiday in Bosnia and Herzegovina. As a case study he took the celebration of the 25th of November during the three years: in 1983, 1988 and 1993 (40th, 45th and the 50th jubilee anniversary). On that date during the Second World War in 1943 the Regional Anti-Fascist Council for the People’s Liberation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (ZAVNOBiH) took place in Mrkonjić Grad (Varcar Vakuf). The purpose of this paper is to perceive the mode of celebrating the 25th of November and to show the changes which the ceremony of celebration went through in the different political circumstances, from 1983, after Tito’s death, across the years of crises and the breakdown of Yugoslavia, until the year of 1993, in which the war was raging all over Bosnia and Herzegovina. Among those years the writing of Oslobođenje newspaper lost the Marxist-Communists form and contents. Socialistic discourse was kept. Trough all those years the form of celebration had an anti-fascist character which is particularly emphasized during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1992 to 1995.

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