Peter Waterhouses literarische Verhandlungen der Flucht und Asylsuche: Die Auswandernden (2016)
Peter Waterhouse's Literary Negotiations on Migration and Asylum Seekers: Die Auswandernden (2016)
Author(s): Katarzyna JaśtalSubject(s): Fiction, Austrian Literature, Present Times (2010 - today), Theory of Literature, Asylum, Refugees, Migration as Policy-fields
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: Peter Waterhouse; Nanne Meyer; refugee experience; contemporary Austrian literature; language reflection; reflection on language of the judicial system; experimental fiction;
Summary/Abstract: The article focuses on the prose experiment Die Auswandernden by the Austrian writer Peter Waterhouse and the illustrator Nanne Meyer in 2016. The book falls in the category of literary texts reflecting refugee and asylum-seeker experiences that have appeared on the German book market since 2012. The paper aims to describe the literary strategies Waterhouse uses to represent the refugee condition. It explores the author’s implicit programmatic statements, the construction of the female protagonist as a refugee and asylum seeking figure and Waterhouse’s reflections on language, especially the language of Austrian judiciary system.
Journal: Studia Litteraria Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis
- Issue Year: 16/2021
- Issue No: 3
- Page Range: 211-220
- Page Count: 10
- Language: German