Claiming the dispossession : : the politics of hi/storytelling in post-imperial Europe / / edited by Vladimir Biti.

"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...

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Superior document:Balkan Studies Library
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Place / Publishing House:Boston : : BRILL,, 2017.
©2018.
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:Balkan Studies Library
Physical Description:1 online resource (ix, 250 pages) :; color illustrations.
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Introduction: Tua res agitur, tua fabula narratur: In Search of Lost Sovereignty
  • Part 1 The Janus-Face of Dispossession
  • Ruling (Out) the Province and Its Consequences: Sovereignty, Dispossession, and Sacrificial Violence
  • The Time of Dispossession: The Conflict, Composition and Geophilosophy of Revolution in East Central Europe
  • Manifesting Dispossession: Politics of the Avant-garde
  • 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?
  • Andrić and the Bridge: Dispossessed Writers and the Novel as a Site of Enduring Homelessness
  • Anika and the "Big Other"
  • Melancholic Dispossession in The Diary about Čarnojević
  • Part 3 The Post-post-imperial Retake
  • Failures of Community: Andrić in Andrićgrad
  • Literature and the Politics of Denial: Slovenian Novels on 'The Erasure'
  • Cosmopolitan Counter-Narratives of Dispossession: Migration, Memory, and Metanarration in the Work of Aleksandar Hemon
  • Index of Names.