Un(be)greifbare Bilder des Familiengedächtnisses in der deutschen zeitgenössischen Literatur: Tanja Dückers' Himmelskörper

Authors

  • Tina Štrancar

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4312/an.46.1-2.93-104

Keywords:

German literature, 20th century, literary studies, collective memory, nazicm

Abstract

This article first presents in brief recent theories of memory, their relevance for literarytheory (literature as a medium of collective memory), and then performs a reading of the novel Himmelskörperby German author Tanja Dückers through the lens of family memory. It signals attentionto the strategies of fictionalisation of and reflection on communicative memory, manifest in the novelin the form of family conversations, and the transformation of communicative memory into culturalor collective memory.

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Published

31.12.2013

How to Cite

Štrancar, T. (2013). Un(be)greifbare Bilder des Familiengedächtnisses in der deutschen zeitgenössischen Literatur: Tanja Dückers’ Himmelskörper. Acta Neophilologica, 46(1-2), 93–104. https://doi.org/10.4312/an.46.1-2.93-104

Issue

Vol. 46 No. 1-2 (2013)

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Articles

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