Attached to Dispossession: Sacrificial Narratives in Post-Imperial Europe

Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-90-04-34067-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 21, 8 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 590 g

Reihe: Balkan Studies Library

After the First World War, East Central Europe underwent an extensive geopolitical reconfiguration, resulting in highly turbulent environments in which political sacrificial narratives found a breeding ground. They engaged various groups’ experiences of dispossession, energizing them for the wars against their ‘perpetrators’. By knitting together their frustrations and thus creating new foundational myths, these narratives introduced new imagined communities. Their mutual competition established a typically post-imperial traumatic constellation that generated discontent, frustrations and anxieties. Within the various constituencies that structured it through their interaction, this book focuses on literary narratives of dispossession, which, placed at its nodes, develop much subtler technologies than their political counterparts. They are interpreted as individual and clandestine oppositions to the homogenizing pattern of public narratives.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Biti, Vladimir

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Slawische Literaturen Westslawische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1 Ruling (Out) the Province and Its Consequences: Sovereignty, Dispossession, and Sacrificial Violence in the Early Work of Miloš Crnjanski and Miroslav Krleža

2 Disciplining the Wild(wo)men: Borisav Stankovic’s Not Wannabe Bride and Janko Polic Kamov’s Wannabe Artist

3 A Rebellion on the Knees: Miroslav Krleža and the Croatian Narrative of Dispossession

4 The Carnival’s Victims: Miloš Crnjanski’s The Mask and Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s Arabella

5 Exempt from Belonging: Ivo Andric, Karl Kraus, and Post-imperial Trauma

6 The Dis/location of Solitude: The Dispossession of the Paternal Protection in Joseph Roth’s The Radetzky March and Radomir Konstantinovic’s Descartes’ Death

7 The Politics of Remembrance: Walter Benjamin’s Berlin Childhood around 1900 and Miroslav Krleža’s A Childhood in Agram in 1902–1903

Works Cited 277
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Vladimir Biti, Ph. D. (1971), is Professor of South Slav literatures and cultures at the University of Vienna. Among other works, he is the author of Tracing Global Democracy: Literature Theory, and the Politics of Trauma (De Gruyter, 2016), Literatur- und Kulturtheorie: Ein Handbuch gegenwärtiger Begriffe (Rowohlt, 2000), and the editor of Claiming the Dispossession: The Politics of Hi/storytelling in Post-imperial Europe (Brill, 2017).