Ivan Franko jako spolupracovník týdeníku Die Zeit
Ivan Franko as Contributor of the Weekly Die Zeit

Summary/Abstract: The essay offers an overview on Ivan Franko’s contributions to the weekly Die Zeit; be¬tween 1895 and 1904. The famous Ukrainian writer published around thirty of his German es¬says in the Viennese weekly and thus attacked economical and political grievan¬ces in Galicia in a harsh and often polemical way. Accentuating these to¬¬pics in particular, Fran¬ko obviously responded to the requests of Viennese editors and deliberately li¬mited the scope of his journalistic work. These processes are interpreted as a sign for cultural sub¬al¬ter¬ni¬ty 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 Chakra¬vorty Spi¬vak. 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 Ukrai¬nian writer against the dominant Polish culture.

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