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Narratives of the European Border

Part of the Language, Discourse, Society Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/9780230287860

ISBN: 978-1-349-54129-4

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK - Springer Journals

Mar 5, 2015

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Chapter 1An Introduction to European Nowheres

Robinson, Richard

Pages: 1 –15

[The political borders of Europe were violently transformed during the twentieth century. The large, multi-ethnic and moribund empires of the Romanov, Habsburg and Ottoman dynasties were broken up into nation states after the 1919 Paris Peace Conference. Sovereign states such as ‘Czecho-slovakia’...
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Chapter 2Place-in-Space / Space-in-Place: Theories of the Border

Robinson, Richard

Pages: 16 –39

[This chapter traces the influence and recurrence of Heidegger’s idea of dwelling-in-place, which he explores in his essay ‘Building Dwelling Thinking’. Although Heideggerian place has been influential in defining a post-war theoretical dialectic between place and space, the dominance of the...
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Chapter 3From Border to Front: Italo Svevo’s La coscienza di Zeno

Robinson, Richard

Pages: 40 –65

[Italo Svevo’s native Trieste was — debatably still is — a paradigmatic border city. A topographical map reveals the city’s curious position: a Mediterranean port adjacent to Central Europe, it is on the upper rim of the Balkan Peninsula. A series of twentieth-century political maps confirms this...
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Chapter 4Recreating Habsburg Borders: The Later Fiction of Joseph Roth

Robinson, Richard

Pages: 66 –99

[Joseph Roth was born near the town of Brody, almost a thousand kilometres from Trieste, at an opposite border of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Now within Ukraine, Brody was part of the Galician province of Lemberg, situated on the frontier which ran between Habsburg Austria and Romanov Russia....
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Chapter 5‘The earth is what is not us’: Yugoslavia in Rebecca West’s Black Lamb and Grey Falcon

Robinson, Richard

Pages: 100 –127

[At the time of the First World War Armistice in November 1918, Yugoslavia did not exist as a country, as Misha Glenny has remarked.1 A sovereign state was quickly agglomerated out of the rubble of the fallen empires at the Paris Peace Conference. Glenny describes its inception: It was...
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Chapter 6Buckley in a General Russia: Finnegans Wake and Political Space

Robinson, Richard

Pages: 128 –155

[The book now turns to another text composed throughout the interwar period of border change, and also completed in the shadow of the Second World War, James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake.1 Joyce had moved across Europe (Dublin, Pola, Trieste, Zürich, Trieste and Paris), while Europe had redrawn itself,...
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Chapter 7Nowhere, in Particular: Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Unconsoled and Central Europe

Robinson, Richard

Pages: 156 –178

[The trajectory of Kazuo Ishiguro’s earlier work and the critical response to it accounts for the deliberateness with which his fourth novel is set nowhere — in a mysteriously unnamed and unnamable European city. After the reception of his first two ‘Japanese’ novels, Ishiguro expressed his...

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