Heterogenität im gegenwärtigen Heimatdiskurs am Beispiel von Terézia Moras Das Ungeheuer
Heterogeneity in today’s discourse of the homeland. The example of Das Ungeheuer by Terézia Mora
Author(s): Carme BescansaSubject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Univerzita Karlova v Praze, Nakladatelství Karolinum
Keywords: heterogeneity; homeland; identity; Terézia Mora
Summary/Abstract: This contribution brings together the concepts of heterogeneity and homeland and explores their constitution in the literature. The basis of the discussion is the observation that, at the literary level, complexity and diversity determine the current patterns of belonging as well as its artistic expression, in contrast to today’s excessive discourses on the ‘own’ and the ‘alien’ in the social and mass media. Taking attempts like Dorothee Kimmich’s World’s Literature, as well as (among others) Blickle’s conceptions of homeland (Heimat) as a starting point, the potential and forms taken by heterogeneity and homeland will be analysed on the basis of the example of Terezia Mora’s novel Das Ungeheuer (“diagnosis of the age”).
Journal: Acta Universitatis Carolinae Philologica
- Issue Year: 2018
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 11-20
- Page Count: 10
- Language: German