Kalejdoskop goriške preteklosti Zgodbe o spominu in pozabi

• Main Author: Širok, Kaja (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: Slovenian
• Published: Ljubljana ZRC SAZU, Založba ZRC 2012
• Series: Kulturni spomin
• Subjects: Slovenia; Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000; Nationalism; borders; collective memory; Gorica region; Gorizia; history; national identity; oral tradition; social memory; Gorica; Goriška; kolektivni spomin; meje; narodna identiteta; socialni spomin; ustno izročilo; zgodovina
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Kalejdoskop goriške preteklosti, zgodbe o spominu in pozabi ('Kaleidoscope of the Past - Memories and Forgotten Stories from the Border') is a story about lives of the people living along the Slovenian-Italian border. In this area, the idea of the border is manifold, it is a state border, a territorial border, a temporal border between what had happened and the interpretations of past events today. The author discusses the divisive past and the seemingly uniting present permeating the area. She tells a story about the city Gorica, to which both Italians and Slovenians lay claims, a story about the struggle for redemption and freedom, about people who stroll along the same river, shop in the same shops and eat indulge similar cuisines. Still, they manage to retain a thin line of differentiation, a mentally construed abyss invariantly fortifying the distance. Since 2007, the border is visually gone yet it remains the criterion of spatial differentiation and identity formation, the founding stone of respective communities.

Kalejdoskop goriške preteklosti pripoveduje o odnosih in življenju ljudi ob meji. Meja je tu razumljena večplastno, kot državna meja, prostorska meja, časovna meja med tem, kar se je zgodilo, in današnjim pomenom teh dogodkov. Delo razpravlja o preteklosti, ki ta prostor deli, in sedanjosti, ki vsaj na videz ta prostor združuje. Pripoveduje o mestu Gorica, ki si ga lastijo pripadniki obeh nacionalnih skupnosti, o borbi za odrešitev in svobodo, o odnosu med ljudmi, ki se sprehajajo ob isti reki, kupujejo v istih trgovinah in jedo podobne jedi, pri tem pa ohranjajo tanko linijo medsebojne različnosti, miselno konstruiran prepad, ki med njimi zaradi drugačnosti utrjuje distanco. Meja, ki je iz pokrajine vizualno izginila decembra 2007, ostaja kriterij prostorskega ločevanja in oblikovanja identitete, ki upravičuje obstoj posamezne skupnosti.