Series | Diaspore
Edited book | Literature of (Post-)Migration
Chapter | Narrative Konstruktionen migrantischer Erfahrung bei Emilia Smechowski
Narrative Konstruktionen migrantischer Erfahrung bei Emilia Smechowski
Abstract
This study examines the narrative constructions of migrant experience in Emilia Smechowski’s books Wir Strebermigranten and Rückkehr nach Polen. The thesis argues that these narratives are indicative of the author’s attempts to establish meaning and identity in the midst of cultural ‘in-betweenness’. The author is concerned with making the traumatization of the feeling of foreignness manageable, with processing her own biographical problems, which can be traced back to cultural interference disorders in being German and Polish, and with attempting a collective identity articulation of second-generation Polish-speaking migrants living in Germany.
Submitted: March 6, 2023 | Accepted: April 24, 2023 | Published June 16, 2023 | Language: de
Keywords German-Polish relations • Identity • Migration • Identität • Emilia Smechowski • Postmigrantische Gesellschaft • Wir Strebermigranten • Rückkehr nach Polen • Postmigrant society
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