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Attached to Dispossession: Sacrificial Narratives in Post-imperial Europe

2017-12-18 History
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Book Synopsis Attached to Dispossession: Sacrificial Narratives in Post-imperial Europe by : Vladimir Biti

Download or read book Attached to Dispossession: Sacrificial Narratives in Post-imperial Europe written by Vladimir Biti. This book was released on 2017-12-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the First World War, East Central Europe underwent an extensive geopolitical reconfiguration, resulting in highly turbulent environments in which political sacrificial narratives found a breeding ground. They engaged various groups’ experiences of dispossession, energizing them for the wars against their ‘perpetrators’. By knitting together their frustrations and thus creating new foundational myths, these narratives introduced new imagined communities. Their mutual competition established a typically post-imperial traumatic constellation that generated discontent, frustrations and anxieties. Within the various constituencies that structured it through their interaction, this book focuses on literary narratives of dispossession, which, placed at its nodes, develop much subtler technologies than their political counterparts. They are interpreted as individual and clandestine oppositions to the homogenizing pattern of public narratives.

Procedures of Resistance

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Book Synopsis Procedures of Resistance by : Davor Beganović

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Post-imperial Literature

2021-11-08 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2021-11-08
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Book Synopsis Post-imperial Literature by : Vladimir Biti

Download or read book Post-imperial Literature written by Vladimir Biti. This book was released on 2021-11-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book proposes a new departure point for the investigation of transnational literary alliances: the traumatic constellation of translatio imperii, which followed the dissolution of the East-Central European empires in the 1920s and the crumbling of the West European colonial empires in the 1950s. To prevent their breakdown, the former transitioned from a ‘sovereign’ to a ‘disciplinary’ mode of administration of their peripheries, the latter from the merciless assimilation of their colonial constituencies to their affirmative regeneration. This book treats Franz Kafka as the writer of the first transition, prefiguring J. M. Coetzee as the writer of the second. In a series of close readings, it investigates the particular ways in which the restructuring of power relations between the agencies in their fictions is a response to the delineated post-imperial reconfiguration of the new countries’ governmental techniques. By displacing their narrative authority beyond the reach of their readers, they laid bare the sudden withdrawal of transcendental guarantees from the world of human commonality. This entailed an unstable and elusive configuration of their fictional worlds as a key feature of post-imperial literature.

Claiming the Dispossession

2017-10-02 History
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Release : 2017-10-02
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Book Synopsis Claiming the Dispossession by : Vladimir Biti

Download or read book Claiming the Dispossession written by Vladimir Biti. This book was released on 2017-10-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The breakups of empires engendered in the newly established East Central European states both public and private feelings of dispossession. This gave rise to collective (historical) and individual (fictional) trauma narratives. The volume investigates their intended and unintended interaction

Perpetrators’ Legacies

2024-10-15 Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis Perpetrators’ Legacies by : Vladimir Biti

Download or read book Perpetrators’ Legacies written by Vladimir Biti. This book was released on 2024-10-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book presents Winfried Georg Sebald and Ian McEwan as paradigmatic post-imperial writers who enmeshed in the hierarchies of power inherited from their imperial times, strive to disentangle themselves from that burdensome legacy. To achieve this, they undertake a subtle detachment from the analogously implicated subject positions of their protagonists. In Sebald’s works, these positions are closer to the historical victims of the Third Reich who used to suppress their past experiences, whereas in McEwan’s works, they incline toward the systemic ‘beneficiaries’ of the British Empire who used to overlook their present privileges. However, in distinction to their protagonists’ denied involvements, both authors recognize their implication in their protagonists’ pasts and presents. Such a detachment from familiar protagonists requires the consent of unknown and scattered readers with whom they forge a long-distance solidarity, connective association or complicitous alliance. Thus, to exempt themselves from one complicity, they enter another one.

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