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After the First World War, East Central Europe underwent an extensive geopolitical reconfiguration, resulting in highly turbulent environments in which political sacrificial narratives found a breeding ground. They engaged various groups’ experiences of dispossession, energizing them for the wars against their ‘perpetrators’. By knitting together their frustrations and thus creating new foundational myths, these narratives introduced new imagined communities. Their mutual competition established a typically post-imperial traumatic constellation that generated discontent, frustrations and anxieties. Within the various constituencies that structured it through their interaction, this book focuses on literary narratives of dispossession, which, placed at its nodes, develop much subtler technologies than their political counterparts. They are interpreted as individual and clandestine oppositions to the homogenizing pattern of public narratives.

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Vladimir Biti, Ph. D. (1971), is Professor of South Slav literatures and cultures at the University of Vienna. Among other works, he is the author of Tracing Global Democracy: Literature Theory, and the Politics of Trauma (De Gruyter, 2016), Literatur- und Kulturtheorie: Ein Handbuch gegenwärtiger Begriffe (Rowohlt, 2000), and the editor of Claiming the Dispossession: The Politics of Hi/storytelling in Post-imperial Europe (Brill, 2017).

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