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Narrative Konstruktionen migrantischer Erfahrung bei Emilia Smechowski

Maciej Jędrzejewski    Uniwersytet Warszawski, Rzeczpospolita Polska    

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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.

Published
June 16, 2023
Accepted
April 24, 2023
Submitted
March 6, 2023
Language
DE
ISBN (EBOOK)
978-88-6969-734-0

Keywords: MigrationWir StrebermigrantenIdentityEmilia SmechowskiRückkehr nach PolenGerman-Polish relationsIdentitätPostmigrantische GesellschaftPostmigrant society

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