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Der deutsche Balkan von Prag oder der Anschein nationaler Substantialität. Karl Hans Strobls Prager Studentenroman Der Schipkapaß (1908)
| Title in English | German Balkans in Prague, or the Seemingly National Substantiality. Novel Der Schipkapass by K. H. Strobl |
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| Year of publication | 2017 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Brücken: germanistisches Jahrbuch Tschechien-Slowakei Neue Folge |
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| Keywords | student novel; German literature from Prague; Czech literature; construction of national identities |
| Description | K. Strobl's Prague student novels are habitually read as 'one text', that is to say, as a homogeneous text with national objectives. Even papers like those of Vojen Drlík (2002), which aim to correct the injustice of memory (and history) against Karl Hans Strobl and thus does valuable work, claims that Strobl, following the success of Vaclavbude (1902), only added seuqels (Schipkapaß and Das Wirtshaus "Zum König Przemysl") of the same genre on the same national militant ground plan. This paper attempts to give a more nuanced view of the treatment of the national question in Strobl's novel Schipkapaß and concludes that among the seemingly homogenous German surface of the novels, numerous discontinuities in the constitution of national identities can be uncovered. |