Contents Vladimir Biti: Introduction: Reexamining the National-Philological Legacy: Quest for a New Paradigm? Section I. The Hyphenation of Literature: A Genealogy Vladimir Biti: The Janus Face of Literary Bildung: Education and/or Self-Formation? Section II. Decomposing Nations, Establishing Contact Zones: Toward a New Idea of Literature Mario Grizelj: ‘Back’ to the West. Homecoming and Alterity around 1830 John Neubauer: “Humbly Report”? Svejk’s Voices from Exile Svend Erik Larsen: With Other Eyes or the Eyes of Others? A Scandinavian Case Eduardo F. Coutinho: The National Concept of Literature and Minority Group’s Identities in Latin America Section III. The Spectral Border: ‘Major’ and ‘Minor’ Identities Mladen Lazic and Jelena Pešic: National and European Identities among Political Elites and Population in European Countries Galin Tihanov: Do ‘Minor Literatures’ Still Exist? The Fortunes of a Concept in the Changing Frameworks of Literary History Guido Snel: After the Bridge: The Bosnian War as a European Trauma in the Work of Emir Suljagic and Aleksandar Hemon Section IV. The Politics of the Improper: Community as a Limit-Experience Ulrike Kistner: The Literary-Political Beyond Nation, State, Nation-State. Critical Unhingings in the Thought of Jan Patocka and Hannah Arendt Aleksandar Mijatovic: Heteroessences: Community, Demonstratives and Interpretation in Agamben’s Philosophy of Language Zrinka Božic Blanuša: What about the Politics of Deconstruction? Notes on Contributors