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Record Nr.

UNINA9910478869103321

Autore

Biti Vladimir

Titolo

Claiming the Dispossession : The Politics of Hi/storytelling in Post-Imperial Europe

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boston : , : BRILL, , 2017

©2018

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (260 pages)

Collana

Balkan Studies Library

Disciplina

947.0004

Soggetti

National characteristics, East European

National characteristics, Central European

National characteristics, European, in literature

Europe, Central-Politics and government

Europe, Eastern-Politics and government

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

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.