TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2021//
TI  - "A Patriotic Act for Macedonia": The Mnemohistory of Commemorations of Mara Buneva in Skopje (2001-2018)
JO  - Contemporary Southeastern Europe
A1  - Trajanovski, N.
SP  - 83
EP  - 104
VL  - 8
IS  - 2
N2  - Almost every year since 2001, on 13 January, a commemorative plaque dedicated to Mara Buneva is mounted and, on several occasions, demolished in the centre of Skopje. Buneva (1902-1928), who was affiliated with the rightist interwar Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organisation (Vnatrešna Makedonska Revolucionerna Organizacija, VMRO), is famous for her assassination of Velimir Prelić (1883-1928), a high-ranking representative of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes (Kingdom SHS) on the territory of today's North Macedonia, as well as her immediate suicide at the crime-scene. The present paper aims to trace the so-called mnemohistory of commemorations of Mara Buneva in Skopje by triangulating the historical and media discourses and political rhetoric over the commemorative events from 2001 to 2018. I argue that the discursive shift over Mara Buneva, as well as over the commemorations themselves, occurred after a set of groupist claims over a particular memory site. © 2021, University of Graz. All rights reserved.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 2310-3612
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.25364/02.8:2021.2.5
ID  - ref1
ER  -