Attached to Dispossession : Sacrificial Narratives in Post-Imperial Europe.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction The Un/worlding of Letters: The Dis/junctures of Post-imperial Literatures -- Chapter 1 Ruling (Out) the Province and Its Consequences: Sovereignty, Dispossession, and Sacrificial Violence in the Early Work of Miloš Crnjanski and Miroslav Krleža -- Chapter 2 Disciplining the Wild(wo)men: Borisav Stanković's Not Wannabe Bride and Janko Polić Kamov's Wannabe Artist -- Chapter 3 A Rebellion on the Knees: Miroslav Krleža and the Croatian Narrative of Dispossession -- Chapter 4 The Carnival's Victims: Miloš Crnjanski's The Mask and Hugo von Hofmannsthal's Arabella -- Chapter 5 Exempt from Belonging: Ivo Andrić, Karl Kraus, and Post-imperial Trauma -- Chapter 6 The Dis/location of Solitude: The Dispossession of the Paternal Protection in Joseph Roth's The Radetzky March and Radomir Konstantinović's Descartes' Death -- Chapter 7 The Politics of Remembrance: Walter Benjamin's Berlin Childhood Around 1900 and Miroslav Krleža's A Childhood in Agram in 1902-1903 -- Works Cited -- Index.

An account of the post-imperial disintegration of East Central Europe. In its aftermath, the disintegrated parts passionately cleave to their dispossession by generating political and literary sacrificial narratives. The monograph investigates their interaction.

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