The Literary Politics of Mitteleuropa

Shows how postwar writers in Austria and Yugoslavia re-imagined the concept of Mitteleuropa , Central Europe, as a cultural space between nostalgia and totalitarianism. The German term Mitteleuropa , or Central Europe, was never just a geographical concept: it connoted extending German influence to the east. In the 1980s, the eastern European dissident writers György Konrád, Czesław Miłosz, and Milan Kundera revived the concept to counter a perceived Cold War memory vacuum, aligning themselves w