Scholarly Article
raming and Narrativizing of Borders around the post- Habsburg Rijeka: Giovanni Comisso's Il porto dell'amore and Viktor Car Emins Danuncijada
Bobinac, Marijan
2025-07-24 · Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne · Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan
Abstract
Between 1917 and 1923, as European continental empires were shattering after the lost world war and new nation-states were created on their ruins, several radical political-ideological movements emerged as well, employing various types of (para)military violence to achieve their goals. In the post-imperial context, (para)military violence was particularly employed in numerous conflicts over new boundary demarcations in the areas known as shatter zones (Bartov, Weitz, 2013) in former multi-ethnic empires, areas for which national activists had been disputing for decades. D'Annunzio's occupation of Rijeka in 1919/1920 is considered one of the most significant examples of postimperial border conflicts. In this paper, two literary stagings of the border dispute around Habsburg Rijeka will be presented: Giovanni Comisso's Il porto dell'amore and Viktor Car Emin's Danuncijada, two very different, but thematically closely related reflections on D'Annunzio's Fiume exploit.
Keywords
Postimperial and border narratives, Fiume exploit, Gabriele D'Annunzio, Postimperijalne i granične naracije, 'Fiume exploit'
Citation Details
Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne, pp. 67-81