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The Habsburg Legacy from a Postcolonial and Postimperial Perspective

In the discourse on the Habsburg Monarchy, two opposing attitudes prevail. Depending on perspective, which can be either nationally exclusive or nostalgic, the Monarchy is perceived either as a ‘peoples’ dungeon’ (‘Völkerkerker’) or ‘unity in multiplicity’ (‘Einheit in der Vielheit’). A group of researchers have recently invested a lot of effort in overcoming this discursive gap by applying a theoretical paradigm called Habsburg postcolonial. This theoretical approach relies on Anglo-Saxon postcolonial studies and recent research into Central-European cultural phenomena and analyzes opposing cultural forces in the Danube Monarchy, a multinational state formation of questionable colonial importance, by focusing on the intertwining of language, culture and politics ; images of the self and others ; dynamics between center and periphery ; particularism and universalism. Unlike overseas colonialism, dichotomies such as that of center and periphery never appear in pure forms in complex empires such as the Habsburg Monarchy, so there is a strong tendency among scholars to use postimperial theories in research into the cultural legacy of the Habsburg Monarchy. The article is concluded by a short case study which shows how the same historic material – the story about the medieval Hungarian nobleman Bánk – was transposed to a variety of (supra)national contexts in the turbulent 19th century.

Habsburg Postcolonial ; Central European Studies ; Empire Studies ; Ban Bank (Katona, Grillparzer, Marković)

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