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

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 ag...

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Superior document:Balkan Studies Library, Volume 21
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2018.
©2018
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Balkan studies library ; Volume 21.
Physical Description:1 online resource (323 pages).
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Copyright page
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Ruling (Out) the Province and Its Consequences: Sovereignty, Dispossession, and Sacrificial Violence in the Early Work of Miloš Crnjanski and Miroslav Krleža
  • Disciplining the Wild(wo)men: Borisav Stanković’s Not Wannabe Bride and Janko Polić Kamov’s Wannabe Artist
  • A Rebellion on the Knees: Miroslav Krleža and the Croatian Narrative of Dispossession
  • The Carnival’s Victims: Miloš Crnjanski’s The Mask and Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s Arabella
  • Exempt from Belonging: Ivo Andrić, Karl Kraus, and Post-imperial Trauma
  • The Dis/location of Solitude: The Dispossession of the Paternal Protection in Joseph Roth’s The Radetzky March and Radomir Konstantinović’s Descartes’ Death
  • The Politics of Remembrance: Walter Benjamin’s Berlin Childhood Around 1900 and Miroslav Krleža’s A Childhood in Agram in 1902–1903.