Flucht als literatur- und kulturwissenschaftliches Problem
The Notion of Flight in Literary and Cultural Studies

Albert Drach’s »Unsentimentale Reise«

Summary/Abstract: The article uses the example of Albert Drach’s still insufficiently researched ›report‹ entitled Unsentimentale Reise (1966) in order to analyze the specific potential of flight narratives in the process of establishing, moving, opening, stabilizing and crossing borders of cultural spaces. On the one hand, the literary figure of the refugee in Drach’s text functions as a paradigmatic ›homo sacer‹, who does not have a stable identity or civil rights and does not belong to any community. On the other hand, the refugee Peter Kucku shows subversive potential, as he is portrayed not as a passive victim, but a resisting figure who is himself culpable for certain wrongdoings.

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