Das Fremde oder das Andere an Bosnien und der Herzegowina in der österreichischen und deutschen Reiseliteratur zwischen 1496 und 1941
The Foreign the Other of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Austrian and German Travel Reports between 1496 and 1941

Summary/Abstract: In this article, the primary texts (there are over 95 texts in total, this is only a selection) are examined from various standpoints (cultural, geographical, political-colonialist narratives, etc.) but primarily (chronologically) according to the “Habsburg narrative”, the focus is on the representation of the foreign / the other of Bosnia and Herzegovina (within the following discourses: orientalism, exoticism, Balkanism). The aim of the article is to give an overview of these works from a genre-typological perspective and to present the topics and content most frequently contained in these works.

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