Journal of Austrian Studies

Journal of Austrian Studies

Edited by Anita McChesney and Peter Meilaender
Subscription includes membership in the Austrian Studies Association

ISSN 2165-669X

eISSN 2327-1809

About

The Journal of Austrian Studies is an interdisciplinary quarterly that publishes scholarly articles and book reviews on all aspects of the history and culture of Austria, Austro-Hungary, and the Habsburg territory. It is the flagship publication of the Austrian Studies Association and contains contributions in German and English from the world's premiere scholars in the field of Austrian studies. The journal highlights scholarly work that draws on innovative methodologies and new ways of viewing Austrian history and culture. Although the journal was renamed in 2012 to reflect the increasing scope and diversity of its scholarship, it has a long lineage dating back over a half century as Modern Austrian Literature and, prior to that, The Journal of the International Arthur Schnitzler Research Association.

Subscription includes membership in the Austrian Studies Association, formerly known as the Modern Austrian Literature and Culture Association. Visit the journal's page on the ASA site.

Table Of Contents

Volume 57, Number 1 (Spring 2024)

Contents

Articles
In Memoriam: Robert Dassanowsky

Vom “Flugtraum” zum “Luftmord”: Der österreichische Luftdiskurs im Kontext des Ersten Weltkrieges
Monika Szczepaniak

“Wouldn’t It Be Smarter to Let the Malay Colonize Europe?” Postcolonial Critique, Antiglobalism, and Racism in the Travel Books of the Bohemian-German Author Richard Katz (1888–1968)
Jeroen Dewulf

Neocolonial Echoes in the Heart of Darkness: Peter Kubelka, Ulrich Seidl, and the Distrust of Sound
Arne Koch

Winner of the 2022 JAS Graduate Student Essay Prize
Assimilation as Abjection in Franz Kafka’s “Ein Bericht für eine Akademie”
Christian Schuetz

JAS Extra
Von November bis März (ABSTECHEN)
A Prose Poem by Angelika Reitzer and an Interview with the Author
JAS Editors and Angelika Reitzer

Reviews
Ágoston Berecz, Empty Signs, Historical Imaginaries: The Entangled Nationalization of Names and Naming in a Late Habsburg Borderland.
Andrew Behrendt

Ion Lihaciu, Czernowitz und die Bukowina in frühen Dokumenten und Reiseberichten: Vom Werden eines habsburgischen Kronlandes (1775–1875).
Joseph W. Moser

Paul Miller-Melamed, Misfire: The Sarajevo Assassination and the Winding Road to World War I.
Eric Grube

Irma Duraković, TraumLeben: Traumpoetiken der Wiener Moderne.
Vincent Kling

Ilona Sármány-Parsons, Die Macht der Kunstkritik: Ludwig Hevesi und die Wiener Moderne.
Patrick Werkner

Andrea Newsom Ebarb, Investigating Franz Kafka’s “Der Bau”: Towards an Understanding of his Late Narrative in a Jewish Context.
Pamela S. Saur

Alexander Kling and Johannes F. Lehmann, eds., Kafkas Zeiten.
Ruth V. Gross

Marlen Eckl and Jeffrey B. Berlin, Stefan Zweig und Jakob Wassermann: Eine Lebensbekanntschaft im Licht ihrer Korrespondenz (1908–1933).
Birger Vanwesenbeeck

Paul Michael Lützeler und Thomas Borgard, Hrsg., Hermann Broch und die österreichische Moderne. Literatur, Kunst und Wissenschaftsphilosophie.
Martin A. Hainz

Eva Plank, Hrsg., Stefan Zweig. Zwiesprache des Ich mit der Welt.
Walter Tschacher

Bernhard Hachleitner, Alfred Pfoser, Katharina Prager, and Werner Michael Schwarz, eds., Die Zerstörung der Demokratie: Österreich März 1933 bis Februar 1934
Vincent Kling

Irene Husser, Elfriede Jelineks Theater des (Post-) Politischen: Agonistik der Gegenwartsliteratur.
Peter Höyng

Margarete Lamb-Faffelberger and Gabriele Petricek, eds., Passages: Crossings, Borders, Openings: In Conversation with Austrian Writers: The Austrian-American Podium Dialog.
Aaron Carpenter

Rosie Goldsmith et al., eds. The Austrian Riveter: Writing from Austria.
Vincent Kling

Michael Pilz and Dirk Rose, eds., Sigurd Paul Scheichl: Literatur in Österreich und Südtirol. Ein Panorama in 30 Aufsätzen.
Raymond L. Burt

Submissions & Book Reviews


Send  submissions  to  the  editors  at  journalofaustrianstudies@gmail com.  Original  manuscripts in English or German not submitted or published elsewhere are welcome. Send manuscripts as a Microsoft Word .doc file or as a Rich Text File (.rtf ). Manuscripts should not exceed 30 double-spaced pages including notes and must conform to the current MLA style and the Modern Austrian Literature stylesheet. For more on submissions visit http://www.austrian-studies.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Contributor_Checklist.docx.

Book and film reviews are assigned; unsolicited reviews are not accepted. Potential reviewers should write to the book review editor at josephwmoser@gmail.com.

Editorial Board

Editors

Anita McChesney, Texas Tech University

Peter Meilaender, Houghton College


Book Review Editor
Joseph W. Moser, West Chester University

Editorial Board
Katherine Arens, University of Texas at Austin

Thomas Ballhausen, Universität Mozarteum Salzburg, Salzburg

Steven Beller, Independent Scholar, Washington DC

Dieter Binder, Universität Graz

Michael Burri, Bryn Mawr College

Diana Cordileone, Point Loma Nazarene University

Robert Dassanowsky, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs

Daniel Gilfillan, Arizona State University

Christina Guenther, Bowling Green State University

Susanne Hochreiter, Univesität Wien

Vincent Kling, LaSalle University

Martin Liebscher, University College London

Dagmar Lorenz, University of Illinois at Chicago

David Luft, Oregon State University

Imke Meyer, University of Illinois at Chicago

Oliver Speck, Virginia Commonwealth University

Heidi Schlipphacke, University of Illinois at Chicago

Janet Stewart, University of Aberdeen

Gregor Thuswaldner, North Park University  

Announcements

Call for Submissions: Journal of Austrian Studies Graduate Student Essay Prize 2023
Find more information about submissions here. Submissions should be sent in no later than August 15th, 2023.

Article Sales
Single articles from Journal of Austrian Studies are now available for purchase through Project MUSE.

Austrian Studies Association Conference
Information about the recently completed 2019 Austrian Studies Association Conference can be found at www.bgs.edu/ASAConference

Sponsoring Society

The Journal of Austrian Studies is the official journal of the Austrian Studies Association. Subscribers are automatically members of the association.

The Austrian Studies Association (formerly the Modern Austrian Literature and Culture Association, MALCA) continues traditions started in 1961, as the only North American association devoted to scholarship on all aspects of Austrian, Austro-Hungarian, and Habsburg territory cultural life and history from the eighteenth century until today.

The Association publishes a quarterly scholarly journal, the Journal of Austrian Studies; the Association holds an annual spring conference, organized around a year's theme. Its other activities include organizing scholarly panels for the annual conventions of the Modern Language Association and at other national and international conferences. Current news and resources of interest are included on this website and distributed through its list-serv and on its Facebook page.

Anyone interested in modern Austrian studies, broadly defined, is encouraged to become a member and support the Association's work.

The ASA originated in a referendum held in early 2011, when the Association's membership voted to change the Association's name and to retitle its journal as the Journal of Austrian Studies. These changes acknowledge what has long been the Association's identity: an interdisciplinary organization that welcomes all eras and disciplines of Austrian studies at its conferences and in its journal, including scholarship on the cultures of Austria's earlier political forms (the Holy Roman Empire, the Austrian Empire, and Austria-Hungary) and scholarship that acknowledges this region's historical multiethnic, multilingual, and transcultural identities and their legacies in the present.

For more information, visit http://www.austrian-studies.org/

Resources

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