Post-Imperial Literature: Translatio Imperii in Kafka and Coetzee

by Vladimir Biti and Vladimir

This book proposes a new departure point for the investigation of transnational literary alliances: the traumatic constellation of translatio imperii, which followed the dissolution of the East-Central European empires in the 1920s and the crumbling of the West European colonial empires in the 1950s. To prevent their breakdown, the former transitioned from a 'sovereign' to a 'disciplinary' mode of administration of their peripheries, the latter from...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3110737280
• ISBN13: 9783110737288
• Release Date: November 2021
• Publisher: de Gruyter
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary