Pamięć jako źródło wartości i kształtowania tożsamości narodowej mieszkańców byłej Jugosławii

Abstract

The article treats the issue of autobiographical memory as the source of ambivalent values which creates the phrase ofnational identity ofthe contemporary inhabitants in the former Yugoslavia. The novel titled Prima Aprilis by Josip Novakovich - the Croatian-American writer - is the exemplary material and the starting point for the analysis ofthe topic issue. In the text, there are a lot ofreflections connected with the writers autobiography, the writer who was brought up in the socialist Yugoslavia - for instance the profile ofTito, his social policy and the creation ofhis own myth led to the extraordinary cultural phenomenon called yugonostalgy. The semantic scope ofthis notion is created on the basis of post-memory and implicates the specific mechanisms ofcreating the national identity ofthe inhabitants ofthe former Yugoslavia, namely memorialization, aestheticization and mythologization ofthe present times.