TY - BOOK AU - Biti,Vladimir TI - Attached to Dispossession: Sacrificial Narratives in Post-Imperial Europe T2 - Balkan Studies Library SN - 9789004358959 AV - PN849.B3 .B585 2018 U1 - 809.9334051 PY - 2018/// CY - Boston PB - BRILL KW - Balkan literature-History and criticism KW - Slavic literature, Southern-History and criticism KW - German literature-20th century-History and criticism KW - Sacrifice in literature KW - Collective memory in literature KW - Electronic books N1 - 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 N2 - 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 UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=5264991 ER -