After the First World War, East Central Europe underwent an extensive geopolitical reconfiguration, resulting in highly turbulent environments in which politica

This book proposes a new departure point for the investigation of transnational literary alliances: the traumatic constellation of translatio imperii, which fol

The breakups of empires engendered in the newly established East Central European states both public and private feelings of dispossession. This gave rise to co

The book presents Winfried Georg Sebald and Ian McEwan as paradigmatic post-imperial writers who enmeshed in the hierarchies of power inherited from their imper