Video and the diasporic imagination of selfhood: A case study of the croatians in Australia
- 1 May 1996
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Cultural Studies
- Vol. 10 (2) , 288-314
- https://doi.org/10.1080/09502389600490181
Abstract
This article is concerned with the role and effects of video on cultural technology in the Croatian diaspora in Australia in the light of the war in former Yugoslavia. It reveals the fragility of the cultural boundaries both of Australian multiculturalism and of the emerging postmodern culture of hybridity, which favour symbolic ethnicity as a form of ethnic identity. It also traces the gradual and often nervous formation and reinvention of Croatian cultural (diasporic) identity which has, with the inception of war, turned into fully fledged diasporic nationalism.Keywords
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