Publication details
Der Österreich-Spiegel? - Jiří Grušas Essays Beneš als Österreicher und die Gebrauchsanweisung für Tschechien und Prag als Beispiele transkulturellen essayistischen Schreibens
| Title in English | The Austrian Mirror? Essays by Jiří Gruša Beneš as an Austrian and Instruction Manual for the Czech Republic and Prague as examples of transcultural essayistic writing |
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| Year of publication | 2014 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Aussiger Beiträge. Germanistische Schriftenreihe aus Forschung und Lehre |
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| Field | Mass media, audiovision |
| Keywords | essay; Austria; Czech Republic; transcultural writing; Jiří Gruša; national narratives |
| Description | Based on two essays written in German by Jiří Gruša - Beneš as an Austrian (2012) and The Instruction Manual for the Czech Republic and Prague (2003) - the paper shows how the concepts of national history and national literature can be taken to their limits: By means of multiplying, ironic quoting and compressing, national self-assertions are distorted, and narratives of group identities are exposed. |