Albanian Personal Narratives of the Kosovo War and the Struggle for a National Narrative
Abstract
This paper looks at the “war of memories” taking place in postwar Kosovo through a close reading of diaries and memoirs written by the protagonists of the war - both fighters of the Kosovo Liberation Army and civil-ians. It argues that the two narratives emerging from this literature correspond to gendered variants of the Albanian national self-identification fixated in the early nineteenth century
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[14] P. Fussell, The Great War and Modern Memory, Oxford Uni-versity Press, 1975.
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DI LELLIO, Anna; SALIHU, Mevlyde.
Albanian Personal Narratives of the Kosovo War and the Struggle for a National Narrative.
Култура/Culture, [S.l.], n. 5, p. 115-124, mar. 2014.
ISSN 1857-7725.
Available at: <http://journals.cultcenter.net/index.php/culture/article/view/68>. Date accessed: 03 dec. 2023.
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Keywords
Kosovo, Albanian National Narratives, War Memories, Imagined Communities, War and Masculinity, National Narratives and Masculinity
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