Corporality and quotations - stabilizers of memories of the transfer/expulsion in novels by Jakuba Katalpa and Reinhard Jirgl

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Corporality and quotations - stabilizers of memories of the transfer/expulsion in novels by Jakuba Katalpa and Reinhard Jirgl

Original language description

This study deals with the strategies behind the literary representation of the transfer/ expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia in the novel Němci (Germans) by Jakub Katalpa (2012) and Die Unvollendeten (The Unfinished) by Reinhard Jirgl (2003). It focuses on two marginal methods of literary remembrance: memory of corporality and allegorical quotation, which following on from Aleida Assmann are understood to be specific "memory stabilizers". Mute material indices imprinted in the corporality of Katulpa's characters and objects may only survive the disintegration of social memory frameworks to the extent that a memory remains in its muteness beyond any discursivity, which is constantly subject to change. Likewise the quotation strategy, which in "second presence" mode attempts to attain a fleeting memory of the transfer, only accomplishes this at the price of the fragmentation of the memory and its alternating (self-)reference. The study concludes by focusing on the specific nature of

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

AJ - Literature, mass media, audio-visual activities

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2015

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Česká literatura

ISSN

0009-0468

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Volume of the periodical

2015

Issue of the periodical within the volume

4

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

14

Pages from-to

559-572

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