Leben schreiben: auto/biographische Familienerzählungen in der deutschsprachigen jüdischen Gegenwartsliteratur = Übersetzung des Sachtitels: Life Writing : Auto/biographical Family Narratives in German Jewish Contemporary Literature
Within German Jewish contemporary literature's engagement with the Shoah and Second World War, a new approach has gained traction: auto/biography. This article examines characteristics of recent German Jewish auto/biographical family narratives and discusses newer genre poetics of auto/biograph...
| Subtitles: | "Das Fremde im Eigenen - das Eigene im Fremden: Jüdisches biographisches Schreiben über Andere" Übersetzung des Sachtitels: Life Writing |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | German |
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De Gruyter
2023
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| In: |
Aschkenas
Year: 2023, Volume: 33, Issue: 2, Pages: 329-340 |
| Further subjects: | B
ccontemporary literature
B Gegenwartsliteratur B auto / biography B Auto / Biographik B family history B Familiengeschichte |
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| Summary: | Within German Jewish contemporary literature's engagement with the Shoah and Second World War, a new approach has gained traction: auto/biography. This article examines characteristics of recent German Jewish auto/biographical family narratives and discusses newer genre poetics of auto/biography. If every biography is also autobiography, these contemporary auto/biographical family narratives showcase the other side of that poetological coin: preoccupied with self-definition and self-assurance, these first-person narrators seek to position themselves in the generational chain of their families through a reconstruction of their family histories. By way of example, the article offers a reading of Marina Frenk's auto-fictional debut novel "Ewig her und gar nicht wahr" (2020) as an innovative, radically fictionalized, and polyphonous family biography. |
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| ISSN: | 1865-9438 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Aschkenas
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1515/asch-2023-2017 |