Austria in Transit
Displacement and the Nation-State
Edited by Áine McMurtry and Deborah Holmes
Click cover to enlarge Booksellers & libraries: | Modern Humanities Research Association 29 March 2019 • 310pp ISBN: 978-1-781886-02-1 (paperback) Access online: At JSTOR Situated between two major refugee routes, Austria has formed a key European transit state in recent years, culminating in late 2015 when 600,000 people passed through the country in just four months. Ever since, the Austrian government has sought to push its anti-immigration agenda on the international scene, most recently during its presidency of the Council of the European Union in 2018. Almost twenty years after the first coalition between the conservative Austrian People’s Party and the right-wing Austrian Freedom Party in early 2000, Austrian Studies 26 builds on Cultural Studies research on how writers, artists and intellectuals responded to the political shift to the right during the 1990s and 2000s to discuss the contemporary moment. The volume’s seventeen interdisciplinary contributions examine cultural responses to forced migration and mass displacement from literary, filmic, musical and photographic perspectives. They document and analyse attempts to find artistic forms for traumatic histories and losses that defy representation, as well as to devise means of testimony which render visible people and experiences all too often excluded from the historical record. The possibilities, as well as the limitations, of the arts in communicating geopolitical persecution and transit are discussed. In a deeply hostile climate, the volume assesses Austria’s place in a Europe caught between loudly proclaimed humanitarian tradition and the ever-increasing drive to protect its borders.
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Bibliography entry: McMurtry, Áine, and Deborah Holmes (eds), Austria in Transit: Displacement and the Nation-State (= Austrian Studies, 26 (2019)) First footnote reference: 35 Austria in Transit: Displacement and the Nation-State, ed. by Áine McMurtry and Deborah Holmes (= Austrian Studies, 26 (2019)), p. 21. Subsequent footnote reference: 37 McMurtry and Holmes, p. 47. (To see how these citations were worked out, follow this link.) Bibliography entry: McMurtry, Áine, and Deborah Holmes (eds). 2019. Austria in Transit: Displacement and the Nation-State (= Austrian Studies, 26) Example citation: ‘A quotation occurring on page 21 of this work’ (McMurtry and Holmes 2019: 21). Example footnote reference: 35 McMurtry and Holmes 2019: 21. (To see how these citations were worked out, follow this link.) This title is distributed on behalf of MHRA by Ingram’s. Booksellers and libraries can order direct from Ingram by setting up an ipage Account: click here for more. Permanent link to this title: www.mhra.org.uk/publications/Austria-in-Transit www.mhra.org.uk/publications/as-26 |