in:
German life and letters
Oxford:
2014
,
67 (2014), 2, S. 242 - 259 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Ariadne | Wien |
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| Verfasst von: | Mayr, Maria |
| In: | German life and letters |
| Jahr: | 2014 |
| Sprache: | Deutsch |
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| In this article, I argue that Terézia Mora's 2004 novel "Alle Tage" foregrounds the Yugoslav wars, and the Kosovo intervention in particular, as significant events for processes of the Berlin Republic's political self-fashioning in the late 1990s. I therefore contend that despite the text's more widely acknowledged global and delocalised aspects, Alle Tage is in fact a very local and ‘German’ text, directly engaging with the socio-political contexts of the Berlin Republic. I start by addressing the ways in which the 1990s Balkan wars have been used to reposition questions of German identity in relation to its World War II past. I then examine and offer an alternative to the notion that Térezia Mora's novel Alle Tage is predominantly a global text by highlighting the text's inextricable embeddedness in discourses surrounding German identity in the 1990s. I do so by tracing the novel's simultaneous critiques of both the notion of a global, nomadic way of being as well as of essentialist conceptions of community such as a nation or ethnic belonging. As the fate of the novel's main character Abel illustrates, for Mora belonging is instead a matter of an embodied, experiential access to both one's past and present. I conclude by arguing that Mora's novel suggests that just like Abel, Germany cannot move beyond post-war themes such as nationalism, war, and genocide without thereby committing violent acts of forgetting. | |
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