Do the Balkans begin in Vienna? : the geopolitical and imaginary borders between the Balkans and Europe / Ana Foteva.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Foteva, Ana, author.

Series:

Austrian culture ; v. 47.

Austrian culture, 1054-058X ; vol. 47

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Geopolitics.

Borderlands.

History.

Boundaries.

Relations.

Balkan Peninsula--Relations--Europe, Western.

Balkan Peninsula.

Europe, Western--Relations--Balkan Peninsula.

Europe, Western.

Balkan Peninsula--Boundaries--Europe, Western.

Europe, Western--Boundaries--Balkan Peninsula.

Borderlands--Balkan Peninsula--History.

Borderlands--Europe, Western--History.

Geopolitics--Balkan Peninsula.

Geopolitics--Europe, Western.

Balkan Peninsula--Politics and government.

Politics and government.

Europe, Western--Politics and government.

Western Europe.

Physical Description:

330 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Peter Lang, [2014]

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?

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1433115654

9781433115653

OCLC:

857663746

Publisher Number:

99959306296