The past twenty-five years in Southeastern Europe have witnessed extensive efforts by states
intellectuals parties and ordinary citizens to re-evaluate rewrite and revise the past. [...]
Yet these new narratives frequently did not serve open and diverse reflection but sought to
justify new old narratives. [...] This special issue examines these efforts on three levels:
official new narratives remembrance in popular culture such as music and film and larger
social processes of identity construction.Florian Bieber Introduction
