By Andrew Hammond (eds.)
This e-book examines the ways that fiction has addressed the continent because the moment global warfare. Drawing on novelists from Europe and somewhere else, the amount analyzes the literary reaction to seven dominant matters (ideas of Europe, clash, borders, empire, unification, migration, and marginalization), supplying a ground-breaking research of ways smooth and modern writers have participated within the ecu debate. The 16 essays view the selected writers, no longer as representatives of nationwide literatures, yet as individuals in transcontinental dialogue that has happened throughout borders, cultures, and languages. In doing so, the individuals elevate questions on the types of strength working throughout and radiating from Europe, not easy either the institutionalized divisions of the chilly warfare and the triumphalist narrative of continental solidarity at present being written in Brussels.
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Addressing the Tornedalian minority in northern Sweden, Niemi raises concerns more commonly associated with postcolonial literature, lamenting the Tornedalian experience of poverty, alienation, assimilation and the internalisation of majority discourse. 125 The EU’s disinterest in the region was evident during the war in Bosnia, where some 100,000 people were killed and over 20,000 Muslim and Croatian women were raped as a result of Bosnian Serb aggression. 126 Guido Snel explores the issue in the context of Semezdin Mehmedinović’s Autoportret s Torbom (Self-Portrait with a Satchel, 2012).
75 Yet eastern Europe is only one of the continental peripheries where occupation has occurred. Between the eighteenth and early twentieth centuries, Gibraltar, Cyprus and Malta in the south fell under British rule, while in the north Iceland was controlled by Denmark and Norway, Poland by Prussia, Russia and Habsburg Austria, Finland by Russia and Sweden and the Baltic States by Russia, Sweden, Poland and Prussia. In the west, the roots of European imperialism can conceivably be sourced in the thirteenth-century English conquest of Wales, where INTRODUCTION 19 some sections of society are still calling for secession.
A similar bias was shown by Jürgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida in early 2003, shortly before the US-led invasion of Iraq. 96 The Hungarian novelist Péter Esterházy was scathing about the bewildering array of identities projected onto his region after 1989: Once I was an Eastern European; then I was promoted to the rank of Central European […]. Then a few months ago, I became a New European. But before I had the chance to get used to this status—even before I could have refused it—I have now become a non-core European.