Ich sehe was, was du nicht siehst. Kindliche Erzählperspektiven in der Literatur der Systemmigration
I spy with my little eye. Childlike narrative perspective in the literature of system migration

Summary/Abstract: The present article examines the use of children’s perspective in contemporary family narratives written in German by transcultural authors. The analysis includes works of Irena Brežná, Ilinca Florian and Julya Rabinowich, who deal with the issue of crossing borders from the east into the west. For this purpose, the children’s perspectives are construed as representations. Proceeding from the different possibilities and functions of these representations, the questions of the first-person narrator as well as the integration into the family context will be analyzed. This shall expose that the child standpoints reveal the tensions between the different perspectives. This occurs by means of the precise, sensory-oriented, “childlike” perception and the latent testimony of the adults, thus creating a field of heterogeneous impressions. Finally, discussing Wolfgang Welsch’s concept of ethic/aesthetics, it shall be discussed to which extent the presented narrative perspective from a child’s point of view is one of several often-used transcultural narrative techniques.

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