Ivan Franko jako spolupracovník týdeníku Die Zeit

• Authors: Stefan Simonek

Title variants

EN

Ivan Franko as Contributor of the Weekly Die Zeit

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The essay offers an overview on Ivan Franko’s contributions to the weekly Die Zeit; between 1895 and 1904. The famous Ukrainian writer published around thirty of his German essays in the Viennese weekly and thus attacked economical and political grievances in Galicia in a harsh and often polemical way. Accentuating these topics in particular, Franko obviously responded to the requests of Viennese editors and deliberately limited the scope of his journalistic work. These processes are interpreted as a sign for cultural subalternity of the periphery of the Habsburg Empire in its relationship to the centre in Vienna and are analyzed by means of “Postcolonial Studies”, namely by the works of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. With the help of Spivak’s famous essay titled Can the Subaltern Speak?, it is possible to understand Franko’s furious attack against Adam Mickiewicz, published in Die Zeit in May 1897 under the title Ein Dichter des Verrathes, as a reaction of a subaltern Ukrainian writer against the dominant Polish culture.

Keywords

EN

Ivan Franko; Viennese weekly Die Zeit; Hermann Bahr; Postcolonial Studies

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY

• Publisher: Masaryk's Institute and Archives, ASCR
• Journal: Střed. Časopis pro mezioborová studia Střední Evropy 19. a 20. století. / Centre. Journal for Interdisciplinary Studies of Central Europe in the 19th and 20th Centuries.
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 2
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 38 – 58

Contributors

author

Stefan Simonek

• Redakce časopisu Střed, Masarykův ústav a Archiv AV ČR, v.v.i., Gabčíkova 2362/10, 182 00, Prague 8, Czech Republic