Narrative Muster des Kriegs, der Nation und des Imperiums
Narrative Models of War, Nation and Empire
Cultural Intertwining of the German-Speaking with South Slav Regions
Author(s): Boris PrevišićSubject(s): Cultural history, Ethnohistory, Oral history, Transformation Period (1990 - 2010), Period(s) of Nation Building, Post-Communist Transformation, Theory of Literature
Published by: Odsjek za germanistiku - Filozofski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu
Keywords: Narrative models; war narratives; nation building; imperialism; South Slav region; South-Eastern Europe;
Summary/Abstract: Cultural intertwining of the German-speaking with the South Slav regions has persisted to this day. In this article, I analyze three war narratives (of the Bosnian War 1992–1995), a narrative of nation building (by Leopold Ranke in 1829) and narratives of different imperial types (by Peter Handke in 1986 and primarily in 2002) in order to show that the South Slav region does not occupy a special status in South-Eastern Europe. However, the intertwining of different economic and cultural spaces in the imperial zone of transition between the Ottoman and the Habsburg Empires yields narratives which can also be considered as paradigmatic for other cultural spaces. It is therefore possible to make generalizations about them.
Journal: Zagreber Germanistische Beiträge
- Issue Year: 2015
- Issue No: 24
- Page Range: 35-46
- Page Count: 12
- Language: German