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...

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Subtitles:"Das Fremde im Eigenen - das Eigene im Fremden: Jüdisches biographisches Schreiben über Andere"
Übersetzung des Sachtitels: Life Writing
Main Author: Banki, Luisa 1984- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:German
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Published: De Gruyter 2023
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.
ISSN:1865-9438
Contains:Enthalten in: Aschkenas
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1515/asch-2023-2017