A Multidirectional Europe: Post-Socialist Memory in Contemporary German Literature- [electronic resource]
A Multidirectional Europe: Post-Socialist Memory in Contemporary German Literature- [electronic resource]
- 자료유형
- 학위논문파일 국외
- 최종처리일시
- 20240214101914
- ISBN
- 9798380479257
- DDC
- 830
- 서명/저자
- A Multidirectional Europe: Post-Socialist Memory in Contemporary German Literature - [electronic resource]
- 발행사항
- [S.l.]: : Columbia University., 2023
- 발행사항
- Ann Arbor : : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses,, 2023
- 형태사항
- 1 online resource(202 p.)
- 주기사항
- Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-04, Section: A.
- 주기사항
- Advisor: Breger, Claudia.
- 학위논문주기
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--Columbia University, 2023.
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- 초록/해제
- 요약Focusing on novels by three contemporary German authors and one multi-author theater text, "A Multidirectional Europe" investigates how their writing responds to post-1989 memory paradigms in which post-socialist memory, in relation to the Holocaust and Second World War, has received asymmetrical attention. Conceived as an interdisciplinary and comparative study, this dissertation analyzes how narrative texts by Herta Muller (1953-), Nino Haratischwili (1983-), Sasa Stanisic (1978-) and the play Ein europaisches Abendmahl [2017] frame the memory of socialism in relation to the Holocaust, considering the ways in which these authors challenge the larger post- or transnational discourse of a supposedly "unified Europe." Having migrated from Romania, Georgia, and Bosnia respectively, these authors, I argue, integrate post-socialist memories into German, and European, memory discourses through their play with genre, narrative structure, figurative language, and intertextuality.Although sociohistorical context is crucial in my readings for questions of memory, this dissertation seeks to transcend bounded definitions of memory, embracing a dynamic approach that is more inclusive in terms of the (hi)stories that are told and that contribute to the imagination of a heterogenous continent. Combining cultural studies, literary analysis, and memory theory, I move away from reading these works under the lens of autobiographical trauma, seeking instead to examine the negotiation of post-socialist memory through attending to generic and formal elements of the literary texts. My literary close readings methodologically draw on individual texts, while reflecting how literature is in exchange with other media and also present in the public sphere. Rather than a homogeneous entity, I show, the invoked Europe constitutes a multidirectional network.Through my focus on contexts beyond East Germany and its experience of state socialism, I address the intersections of migration and memory and their relevance for contemporary and future Germany and Europe, while counteracting approaches that traditionally center West Central Europe in discussions of the continent. In dialogue with Michael Rothberg's conceptualization of multidirectional memory, I furthermore contribute to ongoing debates on different histories of violence, such as the current discussion about the relation or interaction between the memories of colonialism and the Holocaust.
- 일반주제명
- German literature.
- 일반주제명
- Holocaust studies.
- 일반주제명
- Literature.
- 키워드
- Migration
- 키워드
- Holocaust
- 기타저자
- Columbia University Germanic Languages
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertations Abstracts International. 85-04A.
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertation Abstract International
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