AlieNation. Colonial constructions of the Bosnian-Herzegovinian other in Austrian texts around 1900

• Authors: Clemens Ruthner
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This article has analysed samples revealing the positionalities of representing the Bosnian-Herzegovinian “alien” in imperial Austrian literature around 1900. It not only shows the involvement of literary texts in contemporary views on Otherness, but also their frequent hidden colonial agenda in a transnational Habsburg context. Thus, close readings like the ones sketched here also prove the prolificness of applying a Postcolonial perspective even for power relations of hegemony and subalternity within Europe.

Keywords

EN

concepts of cultural Otherness; Austria-Hungary; Bosnia and Herzegovina; literary texts

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY

• Publisher: Institute of History, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Slovanský přehled: historická revue pro dějiny střední, východní a jihovýchodní Evropy (Slavonic Review: Review for Central, Eastern and Southeastern European history)
• Year: 2024
• Volume: 110
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 297-316
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Clemens Ruthner

• Slovanský přehled, redakce, Historický ústav AV ČR, v.v.i., Prosecká 76, 190 00 Praha 9, Czech Republic