Drei Metaphern des Exils im neuesten deutschsprachigen Roman: Gehen, ging, gegangen von Jenny Erpenbeck, Ohrfeige von Abbas Khider, Das Mädchen mit dem Fingerhut von Michael Köhlmeier

• Authors: Rafał Pokrywka

Title variants

Three Metaphors of Exile in the Modern German Novel: Gehen, ging, gegangen by Jenny Erpenbeck, Ohrfeige by Abbas Khider, Das Mädchen mit dem Fingerhut by Michael Köhlmeier

Drei Metaphern des Exils im neuesten deutschsprachigen Roman: Gehen, ging, gegangen von Jenny Erpenbeck, Ohrfeige von Abbas Khider, Das Mädchen mit dem Fingerhut von Michael Köhlmeier

• Languages of publication: DE

Abstracts

PL

The paper is divided into three parts. In the first one the most popular contexts of the research of the migrant literature are named: the actual debate about consequences of migrant policy and the figure of the author. In the second part three central metaphors in the novels of Erpenbeck, Khider and Köhlmeier are presented. These metaphors of exile are: disturbed time, lost life story, incomprehensible language. The third part contains an overview of the reception of the novels in Germany. The conventions of reading focus first of all on the two aforementioned non-fictional references (political context and author) without taking the metaphorical power of the texts into account. Thus the new migrant literature tends to become an equivalent for journalism and is read literally as a testimony of the author.

EN

The paper is divided into three parts. In the first one the most popular contexts of the research of the migrant literature are named: the actual debate about consequences of migrant policy and the figure of the author. In the second part three central metaphors in the novels of Erpenbeck, Khider and Köhlmeier are presented. These metaphors of exile are: disturbed time, lost life story, incomprehensible language. The third part contains an overview of the reception of the novels in Germany. The conventions of reading focus first of all on the two aforementioned non-fictional references (political context and author) without taking the metaphorical power of the texts into account. Thus the new migrant literature tends to become an equivalent for journalism and is read literally as a testimony of the author.

Keywords

EN

migrant literature; metaphor; postcolonial discourse; critical reception; migrant literature; metaphor; postcolonial discourse; critical reception

PL

literatura migracyjna; metafora; dyskurs postkolonialny; recepcja krytyczna

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Rzeszowski. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego
• Journal: Tematy i Konteksty
• Year: 2017
• Volume: 12
• Issue: 7
• Pages: 412-425

Dates

published

2017-12-16

Contributors

author

Rafał Pokrywka

Identifiers

DOI

10.15584/tik.2017.27