'Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences University of Rijeka'
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Abstract
Rad se bavi kolektivnim pamćenjem Rižarne San Sabba, nacističkog logora koji je djelovao u Trstu od 1943. do 1945. godine, i to kroz analizu dva suvremena romana: Obustaviti postupak Claudia Magrisa i Sonnenschein Daše Drnić. Nakon što su u prvom dijelu izneseni osnovni povijesni podaci te različite etape pamćenja, i nakon što je opisano istraživanje Susanne C. Knittel o potiskivanju pamćenja masovnog stradanja diskriminiranih skupina (osoba s invaliditetom, nacionalnih manjina), u ovom se (drugom i
posljednjem) dijelu analiziraju spomenuti romani. Analiza pokazuje da oba romana holokaustu pristupaju iz univerzalne i kozmopolitske perspektive, zanemarujući lokalne specifičnosti i utvrđujući stereotipno pamćenje koje među žrtvama Rižarne vidi samo tzv. „nevine” žrtve (kako su definirane u sudskom postupku 1976.), te zaboravljajući one koji su u njoj skončali jer su
bili pripadnici pokreta otpora, osobito njegove komunističke sastavnice, s velikim udjelom Slovenaca i Hrvata.The paper deals with the collective memory of the San Sabba Rice Mill, a Nazi concentration camp that operated in Trieste from 1943 to 1945, through the analysis of two contemporary novels: Blameless by Claudio Magris and Sonnenschein by Daša Drndić.
While the first part of the paper (published in the previous issue) presents basic historical data and different stages of memory, including Susanne C. Knittel’s comparative research on the repression of the memory of mass suffering of discriminated groups (persons with disabilities, national minorities), this (second and last) part scrutinises the two novels from the memory studies’ perspective. The analysis shows that both novels approach the Holocaust from a universal and cosmopolitan stand, neglecting local specificities and perpetuating the stereotypical memory that sees only the so-called “innocent” victims (as they were defined in the 1976 trial), and forgets those who were killed as members of the resistance movement, especially its communist
component, with a large share of Slovenes and Croats
