Der historiographische Spezialdiskurs der Ereignisse aus der NS-Zeit in Eva Umlaufs interdiskursiver Autobiographie
The historiographical specialized discourse of the events of the Nazi era in Eva Umlauf‘s interdiscursive autobiography
Author(s): Ján JamborSubject(s): Studies of Literature, German Literature, Slovak Literature, Interwar Period (1920 - 1939), WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Post-War period (1950 - 1989), Fascism, Nazism and WW II, History of the Holocaust, Theory of Literature
Published by: Ústav svetovej literatúry, Slovenská akadémia vied
Keywords: Eva Umlauf; Autobiography; Holocaust in Literature; Jews in Slovakia 1939-1945; Jewish-Slovak-German literature;
Summary/Abstract: This contribution deals with Die Nummer auf deinem Unterarm ist blau wie deine Augen. Erinnerungen (The number on your forearm is blue like your eyes. Memories, 2016) by the Jewish-German author and psychotherapist Eva Umlauf (born in Nováky, Slovakia, in 1942, she emigrated to Munich in 1967). Its objective is to follow some of the clear traces of interdiscursive communication in the text and to point out how a personal life story became a multi-layered autobiography. In the first part, the originating points of literary theory are outlined and the structure of the work and its interdiscursive dimensions are presented. The second part deals with the incorporation of knowledge of historiographical discourse, exemplified by the events of the Nazi era (including her birth in the labor camp for Jewsin Nováky and her internment in the Auschwitz concentration camp 1944–1945).
Journal: World Literature Studies
- Issue Year: 13/2021
- Issue No: 4
- Page Range: 29-43
- Page Count: 15
- Language: German