Poetyckie „kontrarchiwum” słoweńskich partyzantów z czasów drugiej wojny światowej
A poetic “counter-archive” of World War II partisans

Partisan anthems for the future

Author(s): Gal Kirn
Subject(s): Cultural history, Culture and social structure
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: counter-archive; partisan art; intersection of geology and poetry; partisan anthems; revolutionary temporality; contested collective memory; World War II; Slovenia
Summary/Abstract: The text introduces an intense and mass poetic production in times of World War II in fascist-occupied Slovenia with a focus on the emergence of a partisan counterarchive. The latter is a specific site of counter-archival reconstruction and re-assemblage of artworks that has kept cultivating the revolutionary impulse from times of socialism until today. The chosen case studies, poems of partisan Iztok and Janez Kardelj, point to a high degree of self-reflexivity and showcase attempts at formalizing the revolutionary temporality, suspended as it is between the past and the future, that have helped to decenter nationally-exclusive identity formation. The author claims that the partisan counter-archive, following Milček Komelj’s dictum “how to return to and think about partisan art?”, will allow for breaking with the general constellation of collective memory of either nationalist revisionism (demonization) or Yugonostalgia (idealization).

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