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Title Claiming the dispossession : the politics of hi/storytelling in post-imperial Europe / edited by Vladimir Biti
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 250 pages) : color illustrations
Series Balkan studies library ; volume 19
Balkan studies library ; v. 19.
Contents Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- 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 / Aleksandar Mijatović -- Manifesting Dispossession: Politics of the Avant-garde / Zrinka Božić-Blanuša -- Claiming the West for the East: Classical Antiquity as an Alternative Source of Turkish Post-Ottoman Identity? / Petr Kučera -- Andrić and the Bridge: Dispossessed Writers and the Novel as a Site of Enduring Homelessness / Guido Snel -- Anika and the "Big Other" / Bernarda Katušić -- Melancholic Dispossession in The Diary about Čarnojević / Davor Beganović -- Failures of Community: Andrić in Andrićgrad / Nataša Kovačević -- Literature and the Politics of Denial: Slovenian Novels on 'The Erasure' / Marko Juvan -- Cosmopolitan Counter-Narratives of Dispossession: Migration, Memory, and Metanarration in the Work of Aleksandar Hemon / Stijn Vervaet -- Index of Names
Summary "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 opportunity for their own affirmation. They desired sovereignty but were prevented from accomplishing it by their multiple dispossession. National elites started to blame each other for this humiliating condition. The successor states were dispossessed of power, territories, and glory. The new nation-states were frustrated by their devastating condition. The dispersed Jews were left without the imperial protection. This embarrassing state gave rise to collective (historical) and individual (fictional) narratives of dispossession. This volume investigates their intended and unintended interaction. Contributors are: Davor Beganović, Vladimir Biti, Zrinka Božić-Blanuša, Marko Juvan, Bernarda Katušić, Nataša Kovačević, Petr Kučera, Aleksandar Mijatović, Guido Snel, and Stijn Vervaet."-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 16, 2020)
Subject National characteristics, East European.
National characteristics, Central European.
National characteristics, European, in literature.
HISTORY / Europe / Eastern
HISTORY / Europe / Former Soviet Republics
HISTORY / Europe / Russia & the Former Soviet Union
National characteristics, Central European
National characteristics, East European
National characteristics, European, in literature
Politics and government
SUBJECT Europe, Central -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94003219
Europe, Eastern -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045775
Subject Central Europe
Eastern Europe
Form Electronic book
Author Biti, Vladimir, 1952- editor
LC no. 2018020545
ISBN 9789004353930
9004353933