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Narratives of Modernisation in Periodicals: On the German Language Agramer Tagblatt in 1918.

As Gellner (1983) suggests, the narrative of modernization is one of the necessary prerequisites for the success of nationalist projects. In line with his argument, this presentation will be an investigation into the frequency of this narrative in German-language periodicals published in Zagreb in the first third of the 20th century. The object of analysis are the most important periodicals: the influential newspaper Agramer Zeitung and the oppositional Agramer Tagblatt (1886–1926). Special attention will be paid to the newspaper Agramer Tagblatt because it reflects the conflict between imperial loyalty and its competing relationship with national integration discourses of Croatian and South- Slav provenance. From their very beginning, in the first phase from 1786 until 1848 up until 1918 German-language periodicals in Zagreb were marked by their cultural and national- integrative mission, so their slow decline after World War I is interpreted as a result of problematic modernization of monocultural national projects.

Agramer Tagblatt, 1918, imperial narratives

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