Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction The Un/worlding of Letters: The Dis/junctures of Post-imperial Literatures

Chapter 1 Ruling (Out) the Province and Its Consequences: Sovereignty, Dispossession, and Sacrificial Violence in the Early Work of Miloš Crnjanski and Miroslav Krleža

Chapter 2 Disciplining the Wild(wo)men: Borisav Stanković’s Not Wannabe Bride and Janko Polić Kamov’s Wannabe Artist

Chapter 3 A Rebellion on the Knees: Miroslav Krleža and the Croatian Narrative of Dispossession

Chapter 4 The Carnival’s Victims: Miloš Crnjanski’s The Mask and Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s Arabella

Chapter 5 Exempt from Belonging: Ivo Andrić, Karl Kraus, and Post-imperial Trauma

Chapter 6 The Dis/location of Solitude: The Dispossession of the Paternal Protection in Joseph Roth’s The Radetzky March and Radomir Konstantinović’s Descartes’ Death

Chapter 7 The Politics of Remembrance: Walter Benjamin’s Berlin Childhood Around 1900 and Miroslav Krleža’s A Childhood in Agram in 1902–1903

Works Cited

Index