Biographical Note
Vladimir Biti is Professor Emeritus of Slavic and Comparative Literature at the University of Vienna, currently Distinguished Chair Visiting Professor at Zhejiang University. His most recent monograph is
Attached to Dispossession, (Brill, 2018). Upcoming:
Post-imperial Literature:Translatio imperii
in Kafka and Coetzee.
Joep Leerssen is Professor of Modern European Literature at the University of Amsterdam and holds a part-time research professorship at the University of Maastricht. He is the editor of the
Encyclopedia of Romantic Nationalism in Europe(Amsterdam UP, 2018). His most recent books are
Comparative Literature in Britain: National Identities, Transnational Dynamics, 1800â2000 (Legenda 2019) and
Parnell and his Times (ed.; Cambridge UP, 2020).
This volume assembles the papers presented at the conference The International Context of the Galician Language Brotherhoods and the Nationality Question in Interwar Europe (Council of Galician Culture, Santiago de Compostela, October 2016). The different contributions, written by historians, political scientists and linguists, shed new light on the political development of the nationality question in Europe during the First World War and its aftermath, covering theoretical developments and debates, social mobilization and cultural perspectives. They also address the topic from different scales, blending the global and transnational outlook with the view from below, from the local contexts, with particular attention to peripheral areas, whilst East European and West European nationalities are dealt with on an equal footing, covering from Iberian Galicia to the Caucasus.