IZMEÐU PORODIČNIH SECANJA I KULTURNOG PAMĆENJA: PODUNAVSKE ŠVABE ZA VREME DRUGOG SVETSKOG RATA I NAKON TOGA (ANALIZA IZABRANIH SAVREMENIH ROMANA)
DANUBE SWABIANS. BETWEEN FAMILIES’ REMEMBERANCE AND CULTURAL MEMORY. (AN ANALISIS OF SELECTED CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE)

Summary/Abstract: The history of Danube Swabians located in the territory of the former Yugoslavia goes back to the 18th century and ends after the Second World War with the displacement of the majority of their descendants. During these times their life circumstances changed multiple times. The original contribution of the paper is found in the analysis of Danube Swabians identities and their connection with recollection and remembrance in three contemporary literal works: Zavicaj, zaborav (Ludwig Bauer, 2010), Rod (Miljenko Jergovic, 2013) and Doba mjedi (Slobodan Šnajder, 2015). All three look into a matter that questions the own national and cultural sense of belonging. The identity models are complex and cannot be reduced to nation state wise and ethnical classification. Individual rememberance and collective memory take a big part in coping with their identities. Memories that were communicated within the families after the Second World War differed from those memories that found their way into the cultural memory after 1945. The alternative stories complete and revise prevailed narratives of Danube Swabians as Hitler’s collective collaborators. The problem with these persons’ identity crisis partly leads back to this difference.

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