Acknowledgments; Abbreviations and Note on Translations; Introduction: Mitteleuropa as a Transnational Memory Discourse; The Legacy of Mitteleuropa : Between Geopolitics and Geopoetics; Ingeborg Bachmann and Peter Handke: The Austrian Periphery and Mitteleuropa ; Mitteleuropa as Conflicted Community in the Writings of Danilo Kis and Aleksandar Tisma; Mitteleuropa after 1989. New Memory Challenges in Christoph Ransmayr and Dubravka Ugresi?; Conclusion: Mitteleuropa Literature in the 21st Century: Revisiting the Promise of Border-Crossing; Bibliography; Index
Summary
Shows how postwar writers in Austria and Yugoslavia re-imagined Mitteleuropa as a cultural space between nostalgia and totalitarianism
Analysis
Austrian literature
European culture
European identity
European literature
European modernism
Mitteleuropa
Yugoslav literature
cultural exchange
literary politics
memory discourse
spatial memory
Notes
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