Tekstowa wielojęzyczność w niemieckojęzycznych utworach pisarzy polskiego pochodzenia (Artur Becker, Dariusz Muszer, Matthias Nawrat)
Textual Multilingualism in Texts by German-Speaking Authors of Polish Extraction

Summary/Abstract: The essay deals with the phenomenon of so-called migrant literature in Germany and understands it as a construct whose meaning has been repeatedly questioned in recent years. The migrant-feature of literary texts is not considered to be their main attribute but rather as a discursive category which refers specifically to their reception. One of the main characteristics of the so-called migrant literature is however its linguistic hybridity (also called textual multilingualism) – the essay directs attention to this phenomenon in its analytical part, namely in the selected novels of Dariusz Muszer, Artur Becker and Matthias Nawrat. The author argues that the scale of the use of linguistic hybridity is related to the respective migrant generation i.e. authors who have emigrated to Germany as adults play more intensively with textual multilingualism (here the language is considered the protagonist in the novels – ’language virtuosity’"); whereas those who came to Germany as children use them more sparingly (the point is mainly about the ’virtuosity of narration’). The analysis is preceded by an overview of the state of research – with regard to so-called migrant literature in Germany, authors in Germany of Polish extraction, and finally language hybridity (or textual multilingualism) in inter- or transcultural literature.

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