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This chapter explores how a recent and relatively controversial documentary entitled Vedo Rosso has been received as a form of Yugonostalgia on the part of the Italian minority living in Rovinj, Croatia. Based on textual analysis and video elicitation, the chapter discusses the various ways in which this specific community has reacted to a visual reconstruction of the 1980s under socialism. From a combination of interviews conducted by the authors and interviews presented in the documentary emerges a memoryscape marked by intragenerational factors, as well as by the broader geopolitical changes that have transformed, at several times and in several ways, the Istrian Peninsula and the maritime town of Rovinj in particular. Overall this chapter intends to contribute to the existing debates on Yugo-nostalgia, by trying to show how Yugo-nostalgia, as a form of memorialization, represents a complex and somewhat ambivalent way to interpret a mutable and uncertain presence on the part of a relatively marginal ethnolinguistic minority in today’s Croatia.
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Altin, R., Minca, C. (2021). ‘Seeing Red’. Yugo-Nostalgia of Real and Imagined Borders. In: Bădescu, G., Baillie, B., Mazzucchelli, F. (eds) Transforming Heritage in the Former Yugoslavia. Palgrave Studies in Cultural Heritage and Conflict. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-76401-2_7
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