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Identity Discourse in German Prose by Authors from the USSR

  • Classification – name: Literary studies
  • Author: Aleksandra V. Eliseeva
  • Pages: 363–380
  • Publisher: A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IWL RAS Publ.)
  • Rights – description: Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 (СС BY-ND)
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  • Language of the publication: Russian
  • Type of document: Research Article
  • Collection: Russia – Germany: Literary Encounters (after 1945)
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.22455/978-5-9208-0683-3-363-380
  • EDN:

    https://elibrary.ru/GGLACM
  • Year of publication: 2022
  • Place of publication: Moscow

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  • Eliseeva, A.V. “Identity Discourse in German Prose by Authors from the USSR.” Russia — Germany: Literary Encounters (after 1945). Мoscow, IWL RAS Publ., 2022, pp. 363–380. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.22455/978-5-9208-0683-3-363-380

Information about the author:

Aleksandra V. Eliseeva, PhD in Philology, Associate Professor, Chair for Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, Baltic State Technical University “Voenmeh” D.F. Ustinov, 1st Krasnoarmeyskaya 1, 190005 St. Petersburg, Russia.

ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6911-1927

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Abstract:

The article deals with the problem of collective identity in Germanspeaking prosaic texts created by immigrants from the USSR. The analysis regards four books — V. Kaminer’s Russendisko, My White Nights by L. Gorelik, All Russians Love Birch Trees by O. Grjasnowa and Maybe Esther by K. Petrowskaja. The methodological basis of the analysis is the theory of collective identity in modern culture studies; methods of comparative and intertextual research are also used. It is shown that all the texts under consideration manifest a tendency to reject a definitive and unambiguous correlation with any community, their characters emphasize the individuality of the subject receiving various cultural and historical experiences, they also accent the liminality of their mind.

  • Keywords: transcultural literature, collective identity, autobiographical prose, Kaminer Wladimir, Gorelik Lena, Grjasnowa Olga, Petrowskaja Katja.

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