INTIMITÉ COMMUNISTE DE JASNA KOTESKA: REVENDICATION DE JUSTICE TRANSITIONNELLE
COMMUNIST INTIMACY BY JASNA KOTESKA: A CLAIM FOR TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE

Summary/Abstract: Taking as point of departure the book Communist intimacy by the Macedonian theoretician Jasna Koteska, dedicated to the memory of her father, a dissident poet, victim of the Yugoslav communist secret services, this paper reflects on the need for transitional justice in post-communist Macedonia. In a context in which the Macedonian transitional society was built on the oblivion of the sacrificial balance of communism, this contribution addresses the important issue of coping with the past in order to resist political amnesia. Extending Koteska's argument of a Macedonian version of communism as a mixture of the logic of secret services and provincialism, focusing on the improper and abject subjects of communism, on those who were excluded from the “family”, this contribution, finally, outlines a critique of the communist patriarchal and provincially normative “kinship” turned into a mechanism of violence and cleansing that eventually continue to propel the post-communist Macedonian society today and its lustration.

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