Do the Balkans begin in Vienna? : the geopolitical and imaginary borders between the Balkans and Europe /
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Language: | English |
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New York :
Peter Lang,
[2014]
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Series: | Austrian culture ;
vol. 47. |
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Table of Contents:
- The Balkans between imagination and geopolitics
- Traditions constituting european identity
- Geographical, geopolitical, and cultural borders of the Balkans
- Colonial/imperial legacies and postcolonial struggles
- Setting the stage for the current project
- 1. Travelogues of war and travelogues of peace
- Black lamb and grey falcon : the south Slavs and the "imperial" West
- Balkan ghosts : the Balkans as a wormhole of space-time
- Milo Dor's larger homeland : a paradigm for an inclusive Europe
- Once again for Thucydides : narrative islands of peace amidst of war
- 2. Serbia : the country between the West and the East
- Serbian identity between conflicting ottoman, habsburg, and Slavic Orthodox influences
- the role of the theatre in the construction of national identity
- Vojvodina in the age of linguistic misunderstanding
- Modernizing Western influences threaten to change Ottoman Serbia
- Creating the nation in the revolutionary turmoil of 1848
- 3. Bosnia and Herzegovina : the country of multiple belonging or the place where Orient and Occident face each other
- Colonialism and imperialism in Bosnia and in the Balkans
- Bosnia's "uncanny" geography : the sense of national identity
- The conflict between Habsburg supranational and local national identity
- Politics in Bosnia
- Habsburg resonances in the former Yugoslav and present day Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Badger in court : dialogue of misunderstanding between the subaltern and the colonizer
- Ivo Andric and the Habsburg language politics for Bosnia
- The bridge on the Drina : a narrative of consolidation or disintegration?
- Literary reception and political interpretations of Andric's fiction
- Not a clash of civilizations, but a war between nations
- 4. Slovenia and Croatia : Central Europe between the Balkans and Europe
- The Slovenian and Croatian national paradigms in the Habsburg period
- Habsburg versus national identity
- Arabella : nineteenth century Slavonia as a utopian chronotopos of an ideal future society
- The Radetkzy March : Habsburg identity between irony and utopia
- 5. The Balkans as prolific topic in Western European media
- The beginning of hostilities between Serbia and austria-Hungary
- Serbian diary : war between a nation of engineers, painters, and poets and a nation of peasants
- The last days of mankind : drama as a high court of justice
- The Austrian spectators become actors in the theater of the First World War
- Voyage by dugout : the Balkans as a dystopian utopia
- The Balkans in the axis of utopia and dystopia
- 6. Political myth and memory in the Habsburg monarchy and in the Balkans
- Joseph Roth's ambivalent reminiscence of the Habsburg myth
- Tito and me : a late poetic resistance to idolatry from Habsburg to Tito and beyond
- What has remained of the Balkans?