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dc.contributor.authorOsborne, Dora
dc.date.accessioned2021-09-11T23:38:06Z
dc.date.available2021-09-11T23:38:06Z
dc.date.issued2019-10
dc.identifier261239956
dc.identifier2ca0f3e2-ec95-4f19-8ce4-2f8ae414a8f7
dc.identifier85073011829
dc.identifier000485936600004
dc.identifier.citationOsborne , D 2019 , ' ‘Irgendwie wird es gehen’ : trauma, survival, and creativity in Saša Stanišić’s Vor dem fest ' , German Life and Letters , vol. 72 , no. 4 , pp. 469-483 . https://doi.org/10.1111/glal.12244en
dc.identifier.issn0016-8777
dc.identifier.otherRIS: urn:EC93DF46DFAC146F35BC991151605ECF
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0002-5773-6284/work/61978987
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/23953
dc.description.abstractThis article argues that Vor dem Fest, Saša Stanišić’s second novel, represents a continuation of the author's attempt, begun in his 2006 debut, Wie der Soldat das Grammofon repariert, to write about ‘sad things, positively’. Set in Germany, however, it also engages critically with the particular ethical and cultural‐political challenges that writing about traumatic pasts has posed in this context. Through his protagonists, many of whom are engaged in different forms of creative practice, Stanišić shows how cultural memory is produced in response to trauma but threatens to overwrite violence with fabricated narratives. Nevertheless, creativity, practised in response to, and as a means of, survival, retains the potential – for both the author and his characters – to bear witness to the past while producing something that ensures the continuity of the community. Drawing on theories of melancholy and the archive, and of trauma and survival, this article shows how Stanišić develops a mode of narrative that is both critical and productive in its response to legacies of violence and loss.
dc.format.extent15
dc.format.extent330052
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofGerman Life and Lettersen
dc.subjectP Language and Literatureen
dc.subjectPT Germanic literatureen
dc.subjectT-NDASen
dc.subjectSDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutionsen
dc.subject.lccPen
dc.subject.lccPTen
dc.title‘Irgendwie wird es gehen’ : trauma, survival, and creativity in Saša Stanišić’s Vor dem festen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Germanen
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/glal.12244
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.date.embargoedUntil2021-09-12


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