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Education constitutes a central part of every political system, as it provides the mental basis f... more Education constitutes a central part of every political system, as it provides the mental basis for a next generation of citizens. The same applies for the Habsburg Monarchy; the very idea of Empire was already planted in the minds of young girls and boys who attended school in Austria, Hungary, or another part of the monarchy. This paper explores in what way the Empire was present in school reports of two Austria-Hungarian girls’ schools between 1910 and 1918. It is shown that attempts to further patriotism and patriotic activities in schools increased at the outbreak of WWI and were indeed successful in mobilizing students for the Empire's purposes. Students of the Girls' Lyceum in Znaim and the Luithlen Lyceum in Vienna contributed to the war effort by performing various tasks for the Habsburg Empire.
Apartheid has shaped South African’s cultural and personal identities. The paper discusses severa... more Apartheid has shaped South African’s cultural and personal identities. The paper discusses several identity concepts of post-colonialism (Hall, Gramsci, Spivak, Said, Derrida, Kristeva, Foucault) in the context of South African Apartheid and illustrates arguments by references to South African novels, including A Dry White Season, A Question of Power and In the Heart of the Country. It is shown that the definition of the self via difference to an Other contributes to the formation of both, personal and collective identities. The very peculiarity of racism in South African society is seen in the fact that outward difference not only defines one’s self-identity but also the identity ascribed by others, or more specifically, by South African law. Race was the category according to which spaces were formed and disrupted, leading to identity crisis and national traumatization.
Education constitutes a central part of every political system, as it provides the mental basis f... more Education constitutes a central part of every political system, as it provides the mental basis for a next generation of citizens. The same applies for the Habsburg Monarchy; the very idea of Empire was already planted in the minds of young girls and boys who attended school in Austria, Hungary, or another part of the monarchy. This paper explores in what way the Empire was present in school reports of two Austria-Hungarian girls’ schools between 1910 and 1918. It is shown that attempts to further patriotism and patriotic activities in schools increased at the outbreak of WWI and were indeed successful in mobilizing students for the Empire's purposes. Students of the Girls' Lyceum in Znaim and the Luithlen Lyceum in Vienna contributed to the war effort by performing various tasks for the Habsburg Empire.
Apartheid has shaped South African’s cultural and personal identities. The paper discusses severa... more Apartheid has shaped South African’s cultural and personal identities. The paper discusses several identity concepts of post-colonialism (Hall, Gramsci, Spivak, Said, Derrida, Kristeva, Foucault) in the context of South African Apartheid and illustrates arguments by references to South African novels, including A Dry White Season, A Question of Power and In the Heart of the Country. It is shown that the definition of the self via difference to an Other contributes to the formation of both, personal and collective identities. The very peculiarity of racism in South African society is seen in the fact that outward difference not only defines one’s self-identity but also the identity ascribed by others, or more specifically, by South African law. Race was the category according to which spaces were formed and disrupted, leading to identity crisis and national traumatization.