MACHT VERSUS OHNMACHT. DIE PROBLEMATIK DER DEPORTATION, EXEMPLARISCH DARGESTELLT ANHAND AUSGEWÄHLTER WERKE RUMÄNIENDEUTSCHER AUTOREN
POWER VERSUS POWERLESSNESS. THE ISSUE OF DEPORTATION, EXEMPLIFIED BY SELECTED WORKS FROM ROMANIAN-GERMAN AUTHORS.
Author(s): Maria SasSubject(s): Cultural history, Political history, Comparative Study of Literature, German Literature, Romanian Literature, History of Communism, Theory of Literature
Published by: Filološki fakultet, Nikšić
Keywords: Romanian-German literature; deportation; communist Romania; contemporary Romanian-German authors; collective trauma; power; powerlessness; cultural studies literature;
Summary/Abstract: In Romanian-German history, deportation is probably the most momentous event for the representatives of the German minority of Romania. The events are set in the period 1945-1949, but no work on the subject could be published because of the censored literature scene in communist Romania. After the political turn of 1989, a vast number of literature on the theme of deportation has been written and published, the events have also been scientifically documented in historical and sociological studies. The aim of the present work is to analyze the literary strategies which contemporary Romanian-German authors use in their texts to process and mediate the theme of deportation. The analysis is to be carried out on a text corpus consisting of three novels: -- Januar‘ 45oder die höherePflicht [January ‘45 or the higher duty] (1998) by Erwin Wittstock,Bestätigtund besiegelt [Confirmed and Sealed] (2003) by Joachim Wittstock and Atemschaukel [ The Hunger Angel] (2009) by Herta Műller.
Journal: Folia Linguistica et Litteraria
- Issue Year: 2017
- Issue No: 18/1
- Page Range: 113-127
- Page Count: 15
- Language: German