Research Catalog

Title

Attached to dispossession : sacrificial narratives in post-imperial Europe / by Vladimir Biti.

Author

Biti, Vladimir, 1952-

Publication

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018]

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Details

Description

viii, 315 pages; 25 cm

Summary

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.

Series Statement

Balkan Studies Library ; volume 21

Uniform Title

Balkan studies library ; v. 21.

Subjects

• German literature
• Slavic literature, Southern
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Slavic literature, Southern > History and criticism
• Collective memory in literature
• Sacrifice in literature
• 1900-1999
• Balkan literature > History and criticism
• German literature > 20th century > History and criticism

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

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 Stanković's Not Wannabe Bride and Janko Polić 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 Andrić, 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 Konstantinović'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.

Call Number

JFE 18-7765

ISBN

• 9789004340671
• 900434067X

LCCN

• 2017050567
• 40027942707

OCLC

1006612730

Author

Biti, Vladimir, 1952- author.

Title

Attached to dispossession : sacrificial narratives in post-imperial Europe / by Vladimir Biti.

Publisher

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Balkan Studies Library ; volume 21

Balkan studies library ; v. 21.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Other Form:

Online version: Biti, Vladimir, 1952- Attached to dispossession. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018] 9789004358959 (DLC) 2017061388

Other Standard Identifier

40027942707

Research Call Number

JFE 18-7765