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Imperial Messages - Orientalism as Self-Critique in the Habsburg Fin de Siecle (Hardcover, New)
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Imperial Messages - Orientalism as Self-Critique in the Habsburg Fin de Siecle (Hardcover, New)
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
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Orientalism as self-critique rather than hegemonic discourse in
works by Hofmannsthal, Musil, and Kafka. In recent years a debate
has arisen on the applicability of postcolonial theory to the
Austro-Hungarian Empire. Some have argued that Austria-Hungary's
lack of overseas territories renders the concepts of colonialism
and postcolonialism irrelevant, while others have cited the
quasi-colonial attitudes of the Viennese elite towards the various
"subject peoples" of the empire as a point of comparison. Imperial
Messages applies postcolonial theory to works of orientalist
fiction by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Robert Musil, and Franz Kafka,
all subjects of the empire, challenging Edward Said's notion that
orientalism invariably acts in the ideological service of European
colonialism.It argues that these Habsburg authors employ oriental
motifs not to promulgate Western hegemony, but to engage in
self-reflection and self-critique, including critique of the
foundational concepts of orientalist discourse itself.By providing
detailed textual analyses of canonical works of Austrian Modernism,
including Hofmannsthal's "Tale of the 672nd Night," Musil's Young
Toerless, and Kafka's "In the Penal Colony," the book not only
offers new postcolonial readings of these Austrian works, but also
shows how they question the conventional postcolonial and
post-Saidian view of orientalism as a purely hegemonic discourse.
Robert Lemon is Associate Professor of German at the University of
Oklahoma.
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