Nationalismus und Liebe. Zu Wilhelm Szegedas Romanen der 1920er Jahre
| Title in English | Nationalism and Love. On Novels by W. Szegeda from the 1920s |
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| Year of publication | 2013 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Brünner Hefte zu Deutsch als Fremdsprache |
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| Field | Mass media, audiovision |
| Keywords | nationalism; Moravia; Czechoslovakia; Sudetengerman; border novel; South Tyrol |
| Description | From today’s viewpoint, any alliance between nationalism on one hand and pacifism and tolerance toward (national) alterity on the other hand appear utterly paradoxical. The novels of Wilhelm Szegeda (1886-1939), however, are based precisely on this alliance. These novels were written out of and for an explicitly minority (German) perspective following the formation of Czechoslovakia in 1918/1919 (Um die Heimat 1923 and Hexentanz der Liebe 1927). The paper analyses how Szegeda’s nationalist novels get to doing without images of the enemy as basic nation building forces. These images are replaced by attempts to refine both individuals and collectives belonging to the national in-group. |