"They are a burden for the country and working population" : Alterity and biopolitics in fictional travelogues of Václav Matěj Kramerius
2015
Abstract
The study deals with a series of fictional travelogues which were published shortly after 1800 by an early Czech revivalist Václav Matěj Kramerius. The author focuses on intermingling disourses and ideologies produced by Kramerius which were closely linked reformed policies of Joseph II.
They could be also read as a part of complex imagery of the Other which made possible both to define a collective identity of "true Czechs" and to exclude particular social groups from this framework.