Jenseits von Völkerkerker und friedlichem Miteinander: Semantisierungen (post-)imperialer Räume und das (süd-)östliche Europa bei MILOŠ CRNJANSKI und JOSEPH ROTH
Beyond the “Völkerkerker” and Peaceful Co-existence: Semantization of (Post)Imperial Spaces, and (South)Eastern Europe in MILOŠ CRNJANSKI and JOSEPH ROTH

Summary/Abstract: This article, based on selected text extracts from JOSEPH ROTH and MILOŠ CRNJANSKI, demonstrates that the (post)imperial spaces depicted in both ROTH’S reports about the western Balkans, and CRNJANSKI’S lyrical novel Tagebuch über Čarnojević, can be read as neither Völkerkerker (“prisons of nations”), nor as supranational spaces beyond the national, as is frequently the case in imperial studies within Cultural Studies. Through the lens of Koselleck’s model of sediments of time, and the Cultural Studies concept of the palimpsest, the intricate relationships between the national and the imperial are illustrated. This overlap of the national and the imperial and their simultaneous clash constitute the characteristics of a palimpsest of southeastern and eastern Europe in the discussed texts.

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