Title Do the Balkans Begin in Vienna? : the Geopolitical and Imaginary Borders between the Balkans and Europe

Published New York : Peter Lang Publishing Inc., 2014

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Description 1 online resource (346 pages) Series Austrian culture, 1054-058X ; volume 47 Austrian culture ; vol. 47. 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? Summary Do the Balkans Begin in Vienna? takes up one of the most fraught areas of Europe, the Balkans. Variously part of the Austro-Hungarian, Ottoman, and Byzantine empires, this region has always been considered Europe's border between the Orient and the Occident. Aiming to clarify the politics of drawing cultural borders in this region, the book examines the relations between the Habsburg Monarchy and the Balkans as an intermediate space between West and East. It demonstrates that the dichotomy Orient versus Occident is insufficient to explain the complexity of the region. Therefore, cultural multi Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Borderlands -- Balkan Peninsula -- History Borderlands -- Europe, Western -- History Geopolitics -- Balkan Peninsula Geopolitics -- Europe, Western POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- International. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- General. Borderlands Boundaries Geopolitics International relations Politics and government SUBJECT Balkan Peninsula -- Relations -- Europe, Western Europe, Western -- Relations -- Balkan Peninsula Balkan Peninsula -- Boundaries -- Europe, Western Europe, Western -- Boundaries -- Balkan Peninsula Balkan Peninsula -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85011206 Europe, Western -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh98008035 Subject Balkan Peninsula Western Europe Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781453909706 1453909702 9781433115653 1433115654

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