Journal | Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie occidentale
Journal issue | 54 | 2020
Research Article | «sei sprechen dann die art of falling auseinander»
«sei sprechen dann die art of falling auseinander»
La poetica del confine di Uljana Wolf
Abstract
In her poetry collection falsche freunde the German-speaking artist Uljana Wolf develops a translinguale Lyrik, a poetic voice dwelling on a linguistic and geographical border zone. Building on Emily Apter’s concepts of untranslatability, this paper investigates how Wolf’s structural and thematic checkpoints instil a strong political commitment into her poetry. Furthermore, this engagement is here interpreted as the expression of the paradigm of the postmigrantische Gesellschaft. Finally, the paper argues that through the choice of the term ‘alien’ over the category ‘fremd’ Wolf suggests an innovative shift in the representation of migratory dynamics, from their cultural dimension to their biopolitical significance.
Submitted: June 15, 2020 | Accepted: July 29, 2020 | Published Dec. 22, 2020 | Language: it
Keywords Uljana Wolf • Border Studies • Plurilingual Poetry • German-Speaking Literature • Untranslatability • Alterity Construction
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Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/AnnOc/2499-1562/2020/08/006
