Language:
German
Year of publication:
2020
Titel der Quelle:
Judaica. Neue digitale Folge
Angaben zur Quelle:
1 (2020) 28 pp.
Keywords:
Albahari, David,
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Serbian fiction Jewish authors
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History and criticism
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Other (Philosophy) in literature
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Jewish diaspora in literature
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Jews Identity
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Group identity in literature
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Gender identity in literature
Abstract:
In his novel The Brother, David Albahari designs a transmedial network that relates to the breakup of Yugoslavia and the breakup of a family. The confrontation with an unknown brother, who was adopted by a Jewish family in Argentinian exile, lets the coordinates of morality and aesthetics get out of hand: The brother not only reveals himself as a connoisseur of the literature of Jorge Luis Borges, he also bursts into the everyday life of a country that is unprepared for him as a transsexual person. In this spectrum of literary discourse and through the experience of homophobia, of diaspora and transgender reality, memories are stimulated by photographs and aesthetic lines of escape unfold and help accepting the unknown Other.
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