Claiming the Dispossession

The Politics of Hi/Storytelling in Post-Imperial Europe
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-90-04-35392-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 19, 250 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 499 g

Reihe: Balkan Studies Library

With the Treaty of Versailles, the Western nation-state powers introduced into the East Central European region the principle of national self-determination. This principle was buttressed by frustrated native elites who regarded the establishment of their respective nation-states as a welcome opportunity for their own affirmation. They desired sovereignty but were prevented from accomplishing it by their multiple dispossession. National elites started to blame each other for this humiliating condition. The successor states were dispossessed of power, territories, and glory. The new nation-states were frustrated by their devastating condition. The dispersed Jews were left without the imperial protection. This embarrassing state gave rise to collective (historical) and individual (fictional) narratives of dispossession. This volume investigates their intended and unintended interaction.

Contributors are: Davor Beganovic, Vladimir Biti, Zrinka Božic-Blanuša, Marko Juvan, Bernarda Katušic, Nataša Kovacevic, Petr Kucera, Aleksandar Mijatovic, Guido Snel, and Stijn Vervaet.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Biti, Vladimir

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes on Contributors

Introduction
Tua res agitur, tua fabula narratur: In Search of Lost Sovereignty
Vladimir Biti

Part 1: The Janus-Face of Dispossession

Ruling (Out) the Province and Its Consequences: Sovereignty, Dispossession, and Sacrificial Violence
Vladimir Biti

The Time of Dispossession: The Conflict, Composition and Geophilosophy of Revolution in East Central Europe
Aleksandar Mijatovic

Manifesting Dispossession: Politics of the Avant-garde
Zrinka Božic-Blanuša

Part 2: The Politics of Post-Imperial Hi/Storytelling

Claiming the West for the East: Classical Antiquity as an Alternative Source of Turkish Post-Ottoman Identity?
Petr Kucera

Andric and the Bridge: Dispossessed Writers and the Novel as a Site of Enduring Homelessness
Guido Snel

Anika and the “Big Other”
Bernarda Katušic

Melancholic Dispossession in The Diary about Carnojevic
Davor Beganovic

Part 3: The Post-Post-Imperial Retake

Failures of Community: Andric in Andricgrad
Nataša Kovacevic

Literature and the Politics of Denial: Slovenian Novels on ‘The Erasure’
Marko Juvan

Cosmopolitan Counter-Narratives of Dispossession: Migration, Memory, and Metanarration in the Work of Aleksandar Hemon
Stijn Vervaet

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Vladimir Biti, Ph. D. (1971), Professor of South Slav literatures and cultures at the University of Vienna. He authored Tracing Global Democracy: Literature Theory, and the Politics of Trauma (De Gruyter, 2016) and Literatur- und Kulturtheorie: Ein Handbuch gegenwärtiger Begriffe (Rowohlt, 2000).