„Postkoloniální" pohled na habsburský mýtus
A 'Post-colonial' View of the Habsburg Myth

Summary/Abstract: Johannes Feichtinger, Ursula Prutsch, and Moritz Czaky (eds), Habsburgpostcolonial: Machtstrukturen und kollektives Geddchtnis. Innsbruck: Studien, 2003, 343 pp. The reviewer first considers the term 'postcolonial' studies, which has become established to describe a wide range of approaches used in the interpretation of the histories of countries with 'colonial' pasts. The contributors to the volume take these approaches in their historical examination of the countries of Austria-Hungary. They operate, however, with the terms 'internal colonialism', 'cultural hegemony of the centre' and 'suppression of the other', in an attempt to do away the idealized picture of Austria (or Austria-Hungary), which is embodied in the 'Habsburg Myth'. The tenability of 'postcolonial' views, the reviewer argues, is not always demonstrated, yet the volume as whole contributes much.

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