La Bukowina e la “letteratura etnografica” di lingua tedesca
The Bukovina region is recorded as a paradigm for the Habsburg mythical tolerance towards ethnicities and as a “German phenomenon”, since the emperor’s language was accepted here in such a welcoming way like in no other periphery. This narration comes on one side from the nostalgic memories of the inhabitants of the last generation, who later faced the end of “the world of yesterday”; on the other, from the propagandistic political discourse of the Monarchy. This study aims to illustrate the cultural landscape of the region and the actual way in which German language insinuated itself in the local social structure, trying to shed light on the reality behind the myth. By decoding the dominant position of German culture with the aid of postcolonial studies, the project presents as a subject of investigation a literary phenomenon at the turn of the 19th and the 20th century: “ethnographic literature”. In particular, the research focuses on three case studies, which are different in genre and observational approach towards the others: Ludwig Adolf Staufe Simiginowicz’ “Die Völkergruppen der Bukowina” (1884); Karl Emil Franzos’ “Aus Halb-Asien” (1876-1888); Gregor von Rezzori’s “Maghrebinische Geschichten” (1953).
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