Language:
English
Year of publication:
2023
Titel der Quelle:
Aschkenas; Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Kultur der Juden
Angaben zur Quelle:
33,2 (2023) 329-340
Keywords:
German literature History and criticism 21st century
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature
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Biography in literature
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Autobiography in literature
Abstract:
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.
DOI:
10.1515/asch-2023-2017
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