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WechselWirkungen, Austria-Hungary, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and the Western Balkans, 1878-1918, edited by Clemens Ruthner, Diana Reynolds Cordileone, Ursula Reber, and Raymond Detrez

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WechselWirkungen

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edited by Clemens Ruthner, Diana Reynolds Cordileone, Ursula Reber, and Raymond Detrez

Austrian culture,, volume 41, 1054-058X

Austria-Hungary, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and the Western Balkans, 1878-1918

What 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 the Austro- Hungarian presence has had on Bosnia-Herzegovina and vice versa. They consider both the contemporary imperialist setting as well as the expansionist desire of the Habsburg Monarchy directed southward. Exploring the double meaning of the German title WechselWirkungen, the authors consider the consequences of occupation, colonization and annexation as a paradigm shift affecting both sides: not only intervention and interaction at a political, economic, social, cultural, and religious level, but also imposed hegemony along with cultural transfer and hybridity. Finally, the imperial gaze at the Balkan region outside of the Habsburg territories is included in the form of three exemplary case studies on Albania and Montenegro.--, Provided by Publisher

Introduction : Bosnia-Herzegovina, post/colonial? / Clemens Ruthner -- Reluctance and determination : the prelude to the Austro-Hungarian occupation of Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1878 / Raymond Detrez -- Occupation and nation-building in Bosnia-Herzegovina, 1878-1914 / Ian Sethre -- Proximate colony : Bosnia-Herzegovina under Austro-Hungarian rule / Robert J. Donia -- Habsburg cofessionalism and confessional policies in Bosnia and Hercegovina / Bojan Aleksov -- The story of Bosnjastvo / Bydin Babuna -- Das Militärwesen in Bosnien und der Herzegowina 1878-1918 / Zijad Šehic -- K.(u.)k. colonial? : contextualizing architecture and urbanism in Bosnia-Herzegovina 1878-1918 / Maximilian Hartmuth -- Inventing traditions in Bosnia : the government carpet factories 1879-1914 / Diana Reynolds Cordileone -- Artistic or political manifestation? : organized music-making in Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1878-1918 / Bojan Buijic -- Besetzungen : a post/colonial reading of Austro-Hungarian and German cultural narratives on Bosnia-Herzegovina, 1878-1918 / Clemens Ruthner -- "Der fortschrittliche Moslim"? : Zum Bild der muslim. Bevölkerung Bosniens zwischen "modernem" Islam und kultureller Alterität / Nikola Ornig -- Halbmond über der Narenta im medialen Wandel : Robert Michels Produktion zwischen Roman und Film / Riccardo Concetti -- Sprachwende zum Westen : Zur Internationalisierung des Wortschatzes in der bosnisch-herzegowin. Presse des 19. Jhs. / Nedad Menic -- Cultural politics, nation building and literary imagery : towards a post-colonial reading of the literature(s) of Bosnia-Herzegovina 1878-1918 / Stijn Vervaet -- Historicizing Bosnia : Kosta Hörmann and Bosnia's encounter with modernity / Marina Antic