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| Autor/in | Lewis, Alison |
|---|---|
| Titel | Remembering the Barbarian: memory and repression in Monica Maron's Animal Triste. |
| Quelle | In: The German quarterly, 71 (1998) 1, S. 30-46 |
| Beigaben | Anmerkungen |
| Sprache | englisch; deutsche Zitate |
| Dokumenttyp | gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz |
| ISSN | 0016-8831 |
| Schlagwörter | Didaktische Grundlageninformation; Deutschunterricht; Gegenwartsliteratur; Literaturwissenschaft; Roman; Textanalyse; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Interpretation; Maron, Monika; Deutschland-BRD; Deutschland-DDR |
| Abstract | The latest novel by Monia Maron, Animal Triste (1996) was initially received as a departure from the political and historical concerns of earlier novels and a return to the themes her struggle against communism had repressed. But in the East-West German love affair at the center of the novel the effects of the communist past are ever- present. The end of communism holds out the promise of redemption through love and in the beginning love appears to liberate from the burden of the past. Instead, the love affair heralds a repetition of the past, its disappointments, betrayals and traumas. The 'prehistoric' past returns to haunt the couple in the form of the divergent trajectories of their familial, personal histories and the vastly different histories of the two Germanies. The repressed past returns as barbarism. Recollection of the past remembering the barbarian is, however, subject to vagaries of memory and the undoing of repression which act as structuring devices of the narrative. The article explores the themes of personal and collective remembrance and the effects of repression and repetition on memory. The lessons that can be extrapolated from the novel are finally examined in the context of the return of Maron's own repressed past in her involvement with the Stasi, which emerged in 1995. (Verlag). |
| Erfasst von | Informationszentrum für Fremdsprachenforschung, Marburg |
| Update | 2000_(CD) |
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