The series Culture and Conflict aims to promote a dynamic, pluridisciplinary dialogue meant to discuss the multiple ways in which conflict influences, supports or constrains the production of meaning in modernity. It publishes innovative original scholarship from the fields of literary and cultural studies as well as media, visual and film studies. Culture and conflict inevitably go together. The very idea of culture is marked by the notion of difference and creative, i.e., conflictual interaction. Differential markers, such as self and other, inside and outside, high and low, pure and dirty, old and new, support the key themes of the study of culture, e.g., identity and diversity, memory and trauma, translation of cultures and globalization, mediation and exclusion. The new series Culture and Conflict aims to promote a dynamic, pluridisciplinary dialogue meant to discuss the multiple ways in which conflict influences, supports or constrains the production of meaning in modernity. It publishes innovative original scholarship from the fields of literary and cultural studies as well as media, visual and film studies.

In diesem Versuch einer kulturellen Gesamtüberschau des post-kakanischen Raumes treten Korrespondenzen zwischen den einzelnen Literaturen und Kulturen zutage, die durch die nationalliteraturgeschichtliche Betrachtung oft verschattet geblieben sind. Im Fokus steht ein geweiteter Begriff von Kultur, der um Medialität und Macht kreist und in dem das Verhältnis von Zentrum und Peripherie, das Paradigma der Ähnlichkeit sowie das kollektive Gedächtnis eine zentrale Rolle spielen. Weiters geht dieser Band der Frage nach den Gemeinsamkeiten und Unterschieden von Imperialität und Kolonialismus nach sowie der Methodologie der Kulturanalyse.