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Special Issue Language.Literature.Politics. (Un)doing Nationalism and Resistance Edited by Cristina Beretta and Nikola Dobric Volume 4 Issue 3 December 2019 Colloquium: New Philologies is edited by the Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt. Chief Editor: Nikola Dobrić Co-Chief Editor: Cristina Beretta Section Editors: Cristina Beretta, Marta Degani, Nikola Dobrić, Angela Fabris, Paul Keckeis, René Reinhold Schallegger, Jürgen Struger, Peter Svetina, Giorgio Ziffer Technical Editor: Thomas Hainscho Administrative Assistance: Mark Schreiber Language Support: Vanessa Erat World Wide Web Visit Colloquium online at http://colloquium.aau.at Legal Information Colloquium is an Open Access Academic Journal. It is licensed under a Creative Com- mons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). Colloquium Logo by Gerhard Pilgram; Open Access Logo by Public Library of Science, from Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0); Title page: Photo by Thomas Hainscho (CC BY 4.0). 2019 by Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23963/cnp.2019.4.3 ISSN 2520-3355 Table of Contents Colloquium: New Philologies · Vol 4, No 3 (2019) Special Issue: Language.Literature.Politics. (Un)doing Nationalism and Resistance Introduction I Editorial Team of Colloquium The sleep of reason and of imagination produces monsters II Cristina Beretta Nationalism and Resistance Subverting the Ethics of Crime Fiction in Dževad Karahasan’s Noćno vijeće (The Night Council) 1 Matija Bosnjak Understanding Thomas Pynchon’s Postnational Vision From Mason & Dixon To Against The Day 16 Ali Dehdarirad Nationalism as Regressive Identitarian Acting Out and Its Destitution Through Democratic Action 17 Alice Pechriggl “The Opposite of Hatred”: Undoing Nationalism in Joyce’s Ulysses 49 Nataša Tučev Resistance of the Postmodern Turkish Novel to the Return of Nationalism 60 Barış Yılmaz Colloquium: New Philologies · Vol 4, No 3 (2019) Language of Nationalism The Phenomenon of Propaganda as Reflected in Victor Pelevin’s novel S.N.U.F.F. 71 Tomas Cenys Evgenij Zamjatin, We and Tatjana Tolstaja, Kys’: A Century of Envisaging a Dystopian Future 82 Petra Hesse Conceptual Integration Theory in Social Issue Advertisements 90 Anela Mulahmetović Ibrišimović & Nerma Pezerović-Riđić Unification and/or Brexit? Nationalism(s) and the Good Friday Agreement 108 Sarah Ritt Neologisms Concerning Migration Processes: A Czech Example 119 Tena Šinjori About the decapitation of corpses – Reflections of Ernst Bloch’s Ungleichzeitigkeit in the novels of Klaus Mann (including a glimpse into the present) 129 Manuel Theophil The Role of Language and the Significance of Primordialism in Nationalistic Rhetoric 149 Elisa Vitali (Un)doing Nationalism through Familial Metaphors: The Case of Modern China/Taiwan 191 Jennifer Meei-yau Wei doi:10.23963/cnp.2019.4.3.1 Introduction Editorial Team of Colloquium∗ The articles of this issue are a selection of the papers presented at the 3rd AARC PhD Students’ Conference entitled: Language.Literature.Politics. 1918–2018. (Un)doing Nationalism and Resistance, which was jointly organised by Colloquium: New Philolo- gies, the Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, and the Alps-Adriatic-Rectors’ Confer- ence. The conference took place between 20 and 22 September 2018 at the Alpen-Adria- Universität Klagenfurt/Celovec, Austria. Situated in the Alps-Adriatic region, a region that is gifted and haunted alike by its very special historical and sociocultural situation as the point of intersection between three language communities, various systems of beliefs and thoughts as well as economic and political experiences, the conference location of Klagenfurt/Celovec seems partic- ularly apt for intellectual exchange and debate on issues of nationalisms, both in their historical dimension as well as their contemporary resurfacing. It is a region charac- terised by experiences of generations of the local population that were able to navigate between these various linguistic, cultural, and political systems as part of their everyday lives, within and beyond existing national boundaries. The conference was informed by the notion that, although it may seem to many as a case of déjà vu, we actually bear witness to a cyclical turn of events in history. The world shortly after World War I seems very similar in many ways to the current state of affairs in the sense that another major push against multinationalism, multiculturalism, and globalism is clearly evident. Mirroring 1918 and the nationalist movements of the time, 2018 seems to bring a strong (or at least a loud) return to nationalism. After a long general movement into globalisation, unification, and multiculturalism that has This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0) marked the period succeeding World War II, nationalism, particularly in the Western ∗ Nikola Dobrić (Chief Editor), Cristina Beretta (Co-Chief Editor), Marta Degani, Angela Fabris, Paul Keckeis, René Reinhold Schallegger, Jürgen Struger, Peter Svetina, Giorgio Ziffer I Colloquium: New Philologies · Volume 4, Issue 3 (2019) The Editorial Team of Colloquium World, seems more pronounced today than any time in the last 70 years. It is partic- ularly rampant in the political discourse of today. On the other hand, supranational entities such as the EU, seem to be deriving new motivation precisely from the revival of these nationalistic tendencies. A thorough look is hence needed into the languages not only of nationalisms, but also of critique and resistance to them, especially into their narrative, rhetoric, and argumentative strategies, as well as their use of metaphors, im- ages, and other devices of communication. As environments are linguistically classified in different ways, both culturally and cognitively, understanding the various experiences that influence these classifications is crucial for us to be able to account for thedifferent modes of the human condition expressed by language that socially constructs us. The papers gathered in this issue, thus, reflect upon a variety of issues related tothe central theme of the conference, i.e. the various ways in which nationalisms are being articulated, negotiated, challenged, and played out in literary, linguistic, and cultural forms of expression. II doi:10.23963/cnp.2019.4.3.15 The sleep of reason and of imagination produces monsters An Editorial Introduction Cristina Beretta∗ Inspired by Francisco Goya’s most famous etching, El sueño de la razón produce mons- truos (1797–99), in its interpretation as ‘The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters’, we decided to dedicate the 2019 special issue of Colloquium: New Philologies to the topic of nationalism. To this purpose, we organized the annual 3rd AARC PhD Students’ Con- ference entitled Language.Literature.Politics. 1918–2018. (Un)doing Nationalism and Resistance, with the support of the Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt and under the patronage of the Alps-Adriatic-Rectors’ Conference (AARC), to gather researchers on various academic levels not only from the Alps-Adriatic region but also from all over the world, to reflect upon the topic. The articles of this issueof Colloquium: New Philolo- gies are a selection of the papers of this conference, which took place between 20th and 22nd September 2018 at the Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt/Celovec, Austria in the wake of the commemorative year of the end of World War I. In fact, the world shortly after 1918 seems very similar in many ways to the state of affairs one hundred years later, as another major push against multinationalism, multi- culturalism, and globalism is clearly evident. Mirroring 1918 and the nationalist move- ments of the time, the second decade of the 21st century seems to have brought a strong (or at least a loud) return to nationalism, thus evoking the impression of an eternal re- currence of things. After a long general movement into globalization, unification, and multiculturalism that has marked the period succeeding WorldWarII, nationalism, par- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0) ticularly in the Western World, seems more pronounced today than any time in the last 70 years, and it is particularly rampant in the political discourse of today. Paradoxically, ∗ Institut für Slawistik, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt; [email protected] III Colloquium: New Philologies · Volume 4, Issue 3 (2019) Cristina Beretta supranational entities such as the EU, seem to be deriving new motivation precisely from the revival of these nationalistic movements. Thus, these contrasting tendencies require a thorough look into the languages not only of nationalisms, but also of critique and re- sistance to them, especially into their narrative, rhetoric, and argumentative strategies, as well as their use of metaphors, images, and other devices of communication. This was the aim of the conference. Its peculiar and at the same time typically European history makes the Alps-Adriatic region an inspiring starting point for the conference. This border region at the inter- section of three linguistic areas, the Germanic, the Slavic and the Romanic languages, constitutes something unique within the European region. It was one of the major front lines of World War I, which brought along the end of two empires, the Habsburg and the Ottoman one, not only fostering substantial political, social and economic changes but also introducing new state borders in the area. Plagued by Nazism and Fascism and the