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Performing wartime memories: ceremony as contest at the Risiera di San Sabba death camp, Trieste

Représentations des souvenirs des temps de guerre: la cérémonie comme concours au camp de la mort la Risiera di San Sabba, Trieste

Representando memorias en tiempo de guerra: ceremonia como enfrentamiento en el campo de muerte Risiera di San Sabba, Trieste

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Pages 337-356 | Published online: 28 Mar 2009
 

Abstract

The paper examines contest over one of Trieste's most emotive sites of memory, the former Nazi death camp at the Risiera di San Sabba. Attention is paid to the Risiera as a site for ceremonial recollection of World War Two, and to the enmeshing of the local civic calendar of events within wider currents of academic and political revisionism affecting the upper Adriatic. The paper complements existing studies of former Nazi camps as memorial sites through attention to a distinctive geographical and political context, and by exploring the Risiera as an increasingly problematic site of performance.

Cet article traite du concours d'un des plus émotifs lieux de mémoire de Trieste, l'ancien camp de la mort nazi à la Risieri di San Sabba. Nous considérons la Risiera comme un site de réminiscence cérémoniale de la deuxième guerre mondiale, en prêtant attention à l'empêtrement du calendrier civique local des événements dans les courants plus grands des révisionnismes académiques et politiques affectant le nord de l'Adriatique. Cet article complète des études existant sur d'anciens camps nazis considérés comme lieux de mémoire par la biais d'un contexte géographique et politique distinct, et en visualisant la Risiera comme un site aux performances de plus en plus problématiques.

Este papel se examina el enfrentamiento sobre uno de los sitios más emotivos de Trieste, el antiguo campo de muerte Nazi de la Risiera de San Sabba. Se hace caso a la Risiera como un sitio de recolección ceremonial de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, y a la enredando de los eventos cívicos locales dentro los corrientes más amplios del revisionismo académico y político que se afecta el alto Adriático. El papel se complementa los estudios existentes del antiguos campos Nazis como sitios conmemorativos a través de su atención al contexto geográfico y político distintivo, y por explorar la Risiera como un sitio de representación cada vez más problemático.

Acknowledgements

We are grateful for the referees' detailed feedback on a draft of this paper. The usual caveats apply about responsibility for remaining defects.

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