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

在多民族的奥匈帝国，殖民主义与其说表现为海外的社会经济剥削，不如说表现为内部权力结构，由文化话语反映和执行。尽管早期确立的范式认为这些文化叙事是奥匈帝国殖民主义的主要表现形式(Ruthner 2002：99)，但我的研究是第一批研究日耳曼语写作中的叙事形式如何塑造哈布斯堡文化殖民主义的项目之一。探索中欧的殖民主义权力结构是如何被审美形式表达或挑战的(Olson and Copland 2016：207)，我将回答三个研究问题：RQ1：哪些叙事模式塑造了奥地利-匈牙利的文化殖民主义？问2：在哈布斯堡的日耳曼语文化中，叙事形式在破坏殖民主义话语方面的潜力是什么？问3：哈布斯堡文学中对同一性的非霸权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：我将使用日耳曼语散文小说和报纸文章，调查哈布斯堡文化中的叙事形式如何塑造欧洲内部的殖民主义，并共同呈现海外殖民主义的叙事。我的研究还将探索正式手段在多大程度上能够破坏流行的文化殖民主义。在这种背景下，不太规范的多民族日耳曼语奥匈帝国作家的作品证明了一种刚刚开始探索的交叉复杂性(Bach 2016，Ruthner 2017：305-9)。我将以德勒兹和瓜塔里关于“主要语言的次要实践”(1986：18)的概念为出发点，分析正式的“次要”实践在多大程度上破坏了占主导地位的殖民主义话语的稳定性。仔细阅读构成了文学分析的主要方法；辅之以报纸的定量分析，以确定哈布斯堡殖民主义话语形式塑造的更大模式。捕捉从1850年到1930年代的历时发展，我将首先比较1867年奥匈妥协之前和之后的现实主义写作，在这一事件之后，种族差异的标志变得更加重要。然后，我将分析现代主义作家如何使用叙事技巧来反映，并在某种程度上反对殖民主义思想，这些思想支撑着1914年之前日益加剧的种族-民族紧张局势。最后，我的DPhil将探索战后哈布斯堡追溯小说中的殖民主义话语，这些小说经常被认为描绘了帝国多元文化的过于和平的概念(Spreice 2021：368)。项目目标和贡献：奥地利-匈牙利的独特背景是多种相互重叠的殖民主义话语(Stachel 2003：260-61)，这将使我能够为以叙事学为导向的后殖民研究开发一种微妙的方法。这种研究几乎完全集中在基于英国洲外殖民主义及其高度不对称的权力结构的写作上，到目前为止，这种研究几乎没有改变现有的叙事学概念(Heinen 2021：22)。我对奥匈帝国多民族作家的不同中介地位所产生的叙事技巧的关注，有望提供新的分析类别，以推进后殖民叙事学，为研究更广泛的欧洲殖民主义实践的核心形式的殖民主义政治提供基础。最近警告说，该领域目前对差异的文化表征的执着无意中延续了殖民主义的身份和差异的二元结构(Heinen 2021：23-25)，以及对相似作为推进哈布斯堡研究的潜在概念的怀疑引用(Ruthner 2017：337)，我的DPhil将调查哈布斯堡文学中的形式结构是否传达了相同和社区的概念，探索这些概念是否构成后殖民叙事研究中分析框架的生产性扩展

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