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Book SynopsisWhat can post/colonial studies and their approaches contribute to our understanding of the Austro-Hungarian (
k.u.k.) occupation and administration of Bosnia-Herzegovina from 1878 to 1914?
This anthology presents some possible answers to this research question which goes back to a workshop held at the University of Antwerp in 2005. Later more researchers were invited from the small international circle of established and emerging experts to contribute to this new perspective on the imperial intermezzo of Bosnia-Herzegovina (which is usually overshadowed by the two World Wars and the Yugoslav Succession Wars of the 1990s). Alternative readings of both Austrian and Bosnian history, literature, and culture are meant to serve as a third way, as it were, bypassing the discursive fallacies of Habsburg nostalgia and nationalist self-victimization.
As a result, the essays of this interdisciplinary volume (collected and available in print for the first time) focus on the impact
Table of ContentsContents: Clemens Ruthner: Bosnia-Herzegovin: post/colonial? – Raymond Detrez: Reluctance and Determination: The Prelude to the Austro-Hungarian Occupation of Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1878 – Ian Sethre: Occupation and Nation-Building in Bosnia-Herzegovina,1878-1914 – Robert J. Donia: The Proximate Colony: Bosnia-Herzegovina under Austro-Hungarian – Bojan Aleksov: Habsburg Confessionalism and Confessional Policies in Bosnia and Herzegovina – Aydan Babuna: The Story of Bošnjastvo – Zijad Šehić: Das Militärwesen in Bosnien-Herzegowina, 1878-1918 – Maximilian Hartmuth: K.(u.)k. colonial? Contextualizing Architecture and Urbanism in Bosnia-Herzegovina, 1878-1918 – Diana Reynolds Cordileone: Inventing Traditions in Bosnia: The Carpet Factory in Sarajevo, 1878-1918 – Bojan Bujić: Artistic or Political Manifestation? Organized Music-Making in Bosnia and Herzegovina during the Austro-Hungarian Period – Clemens Ruthner: Besetzungen: A Post/Colonial Reading of Austro-Hungarian and German Cultural Narratives on Bosnia-Herzegovina, 1878-1918 – Nikola Ornig: «Der fortschrittliche Moslim»? Zum Bild der muslimischen Bevölkerung
Bosniens zwischen «modernem» Islam und kultureller Alterität – Riccardo Concetti: Halbmond über der Narenta im medialen Wandel. Robert Michels Produktion zwischen Roman und Film – Nedad Memić: Sprachwende zum Westen. Zur Internationalisierung des Wortschatzes in der bosnisch-herzegowinischen Presse des 19. Jahrhunderts – Stikn Vervaet: Cultural Politics, Nation Building and Literary Imagery: Towards a Post-colonial Reading of the Literature(s) of Bosnia-Herzegovina, 1878-1918 – Marina Antić: Historicizing Bosnia: Kosta Hörmann and Bosnia’s Encounter with Modernity – Christian Marchetti: «Frontier Ethnography». Zur colonial situation der österreichischen Volkskunde auf dem Balkan im Ersten Weltkrieg – Isa Blumi: Seeing Beyond the River Drin: Ottoman Albanians and Imperial Rivalry in the Balkans after 1878 – Ursula Reber: Habsburgische Begegnungen mit nomadischen Kriegerstämmen. Montenegro als strategischer Schauplatz.
