“The Inner Frontier”. Borders, Narratives, and Cultural Intimacy in Topolò/Topolove
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https://doi.org/10.3986/Traditio2009380210Keywords:
boundary construction, Slovenian minority, Italy, contrasting ethnicity, border, narrating borderlands, Italianization // ustvarjanje mejnosti, slovenska manjšina v Italiji, razločevalna etničnost, meja, pripoved o meji, italijanizacijaAbstract
On 21 December 2007 one of the most contentious borders in Europe, the one between Slovenia and northeastern Italy, finally opened. This article presents narratives from the village of Topolò, near the Italian–Slovenian border, by three generations that lived with the border in different ways. Some people developed strategies to bypass it, whereas others built up a contrasting ethnicity and an “inner frontier” that emotionally shapes their lives.
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21. decembra 2007 je bila naposled odprta ena spornejših mej v Evropi, tista med Slovenijo in severovzhodno Italijo. Članek predstavlja pripovedi treh rodov iz vasi Topolò/ Topolove ob italijansko-slovenski meji. Ti so z mejo živeli na različne načine: nekateri so razvili strategije, da so jo obšli, drugi so si ustvarili nasprotno etničnost in “notranjo mejo”, ki čustveno oblikuje njihova življenja.
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