De-)constructing cultural colonialisms: A narratological investigation of Austria-Hungary's inner and extra-European discourses of identity and differ

在多民族的匈牙利，殖民主义表现为内部权力结构，而不是海外的社会经济剥削，由文化话语反映和执行。尽管早期建立的范式，这些文化叙事是殖民主义在匈牙利的主要表现（Ruthner 2002：99），我的研究是第一个项目，调查如何在德语写作叙事形式塑造哈布斯堡的文化殖民主义。探索中欧的殖民主义权力结构如何被美学形式表达或挑战（奥尔森和科普兰2016：207），我将回答三个研究问题：RQ 1：哪些叙事模式塑造了匈牙利的文化殖民主义？在哈布斯堡的德语文化中，叙事形式在破坏殖民主义话语方面的潜力是什么？对哈布斯堡文学中非霸权的同一性美学的探索能否作为后殖民叙事研究的范式延伸？项目计划：使用德语散文小说和报纸文章，我将研究如何在哈布斯堡文化的叙事形式塑造欧洲内部的殖民主义和共同呈现海外殖民主义的叙事。我的研究还将探讨在多大程度上正式手段能够破坏流行的文化殖民主义。在这种背景下，多民族德语奥匈作家的不太规范的作品证明了一种交叉的复杂性，这种复杂性才刚刚开始被探索（Bach 2016，Ruthner 2017：305-9）。以德勒兹和瓜塔里的“主要语言的次要实践”（1986：18）的概念为出发点，我将分析在多大程度上正式的“次要”的做法动摇占主导地位的殖民主义话语。详细的阅读构成了文学分析的主要方法论途径;辅之以定量的报纸分析，以确定哈布斯堡殖民主义话语正式形成的更大模式。捕捉从1850年到20世纪30年代的历时性发展，我将首先比较现实主义写作之前和之后的匈牙利的“妥协”的1867年，种族差异的标志获得意义后，这一事件。然后，我将分析现代主义作家如何使用叙事技巧来反映，并在一定程度上，反殖民主义思想支撑日益紧张的民族，直到1914年。最后，我的哲学博士将探讨战后哈布斯堡王朝小说中的殖民主义话语，这些小说通常被认为描绘了帝国多元文化的过于和平的概念（Spreicer 2021：368）。项目目标和贡献：匈牙利的多重重叠殖民主义话语的独特背景（Stachel 2003：260-61）将使我能够开发一个叙事导向的后殖民研究的细微差别的方法。这种研究几乎完全集中在基于英国外大陆殖民主义及其高度不对称的权力结构的写作上，迄今为止几乎没有改变现有的叙事学概念（Heinen 2021：22）。我对匈牙利多民族作家的不同中间立场所产生的叙事技巧的关注，有望为推进后殖民叙事学提供新的分析范畴，为更广泛地研究欧洲殖民主义实践的核心殖民主义形式政治提供基础。 最近有警告说，该领域目前对差异的文化表征的固定不经意地使身份和差异的殖民主义二元性永久化（Heinen 2021：23-25），以及迄今为止对相似性作为推进哈布斯堡研究的潜在概念的怀疑性引用（Ruthner 2017：337），我的哲学博士将研究哈布斯堡文学中的正式结构是否传达了同一性和社区的概念，探讨这些概念是否构成后殖民叙事研究分析框架的有效延伸

In multi-ethnic Austria-Hungary, colonialism manifested itself less as socio-economic exploitation overseas than as internal power structures, reflected and enforced by cultural discourses. Despite the early-established paradigm that these cultural narratives were the primary manifestation of colonialism in Austria-Hungary (Ruthner 2002: 99), my research is one of the first projects investigating how narrative form in Germanophone writing shaped Habsburg's cultural colonialisms. Exploring how colonialist power structures in Central Europe were expressed or challenged by aesthetic forms (Olson and Copland 2016: 207), I will answer three research questions: RQ1: Which narrative patterns shaped Austria-Hungary's cultural colonialisms? RQ2: What was the potential of narrative form in undermining colonialist discourses within Habsburg's Germanophone culture? RQ3: Can explorations of non-hegemonic aesthetics of sameness in Habsburg literature serve as a paradigm extension for postcolonial narrative studies? Project plan:Using Germanophone prose fiction alongside newspaper articles, I will investigate how narrative form in Habsburg culture shaped inner-European colonialisms and co-present narratives of colonialism overseas. My research will also explore in how far formal means were capable of undermining prevalent cultural colonialisms. In this context, less canonical works of multi-ethnic Germanophone Austro-Hungarian writers testify to an intersectional complexity that is only beginning to be explored (Bach 2016, Ruthner 2017: 305-9). Taking Deleuze and Guattari's conception of a 'minor practice of major language' (1986: 18) as a point of departure, I will analyse in how far formal 'minor' practices destabilised dominant colonialist discourses. Close reading constitutes the main methodological approach for the literary analyses; complemented by a quantitative newspaper analysis to identify larger patterns in the formal shaping of Habsburg's colonialist discourses. Capturing diachronic developments from 1850 to the 1930s, I will firstly compare realist writing preceding and following Austria-Hungary's 'Compromise' of 1867, with markers of ethnic difference gaining significance after this event. I will then analyse how modernist writers used narrative techniques to reflect and, to some extent, counter colonialist ideas underpinning growing ethno-national tensions until 1914. Lastly, my DPhil will explore colonialist discourses in retrospective post-war Habsburg novels, often seen to depict all-too peaceful (Spreicer 2021: 368) notions of the empire's multiculturality. Project aims and contributions:Austria-Hungary's unique context of multiple overlapping colonialist discourses (Stachel 2003: 260-61) will enable me to develop a nuanced methodology for narratologically oriented postcolonial studies. Almost exclusively focused on writing based on British extra-continental colonialism and its highly asymmetric power structures, such research has so far hardly modified existing narratological concepts (Heinen 2021: 22). My attention to narrative techniques emerging from the varied intermediary positions of multi-ethnic writers in Austria-Hungary promises to deliver new analytical categories to advance postcolonial narratology, providing a basis for investigating a colonialist politics of form that was central to European colonialist practices more widely. With recent warnings that the field's current fixation on cultural representations of difference inadvertently perpetuates colonialist binaries of identity and difference (Heinen 2021: 23-25), and as yet sceptical references to similarity as a potential concept for advancing Habsburg Studies (Ruthner 2017: 337), my DPhil will investigate whether formal structures within Habsburg literatures convey notions of sameness and community, exploring whether these concepts constitute productive extensions to analytical frameworks in postcolonial narrative research