CENTRAL EUROPE GOES POSTCOLONIAL: NEW APPROACHES TO THE HABSBURG EMPIRE AROUND 1900

Abstract

This contribution gives a short outline of an international research project which started in Vienna in 2001, entitled ‘Power,Ethnicity and Literature in Austria-Hungary from 1867 to 1918’. This project is proposing a quasi-postcolonial view on the culture(s) of the late Habsburg monarchy and their identity construction/identity politics.

Keywords:

• Austrian Cultural Studies
• Postcolonial Studies
• Habsburg Monarchy
• Identity Construction
• Images Of The Self And The
• Other