Publication: 'Das slowenische Gesicht': Literarische Reportage über Auswandereridentitäten
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Date
2018
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EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste
Abstract
Der Beitrag befasst sich mit dem
Werk Das slowenische Gesicht (Slovenski
obraz) der slowenischen Autorin
Brina Svit. Einleitend wird auf die
Problematik der hybriden Form des
Werkes hingewiesen und das Werk als
eine literarische Reportage definiert.
Anschließend widmet sich der Beitrag
dem Hauptthema der Auswandereridentität.
Die Frage der Auswandereridentität,
vor allem aber deren
Bewahrung, wird im Slowenischen
Gesicht aus drei Perspektiven dargestellt,
und zwar aus der Perspektive
der Erzählerin, der argentinischen
Slowenen und des polnischen Schriftstellers
Witold Gombrowicz. Dem
letzteren weist die Erzählerin eine
wichtige Rolle zu, da er als Außenstehender
dem Slowenentum nicht
unmittelbar verbunden ist, dafür aber
das Emigrantenschicksal mit den
ausgewanderten Slowenen teilt. Sie
fasst die Gedanken aus Gombrowicz’
Tagebüchern und dessen Briefwechsel
zusammen und kommentiert sie, um
abschließend ein polyphones Konzept
von Identität hervorzuheben.
This contribution is focused on The Slovene face (Slovenski obraz), a literary reportage written by the Slovene writer Brina Svit. Having defined Slovenski obraz as “literary reportage”, this article especially takes into consideration the challenges of genre hybridity and focuses on emigrant identity as the main topic of Svit’s work. The reportage namely looks at the question of identity – especially the preservation of its components – from three different perspectives: the point of view of the narrator; of the Argentines of Slovene descent; and that of the Polish writer Witold Gombrowicz. The latter is given an important role in the reader’s perception of the entire story. He is an “outsider”, not ravelled into web of the Slovene identity, yet still has the experience of emigrant life and can therefore relate to many of its aspects. The narrator quotes and comments on his thoughts – as he voiced them in his diaries and correspondence – in order to support a final realization about the polyphonic character of identity.
This contribution is focused on The Slovene face (Slovenski obraz), a literary reportage written by the Slovene writer Brina Svit. Having defined Slovenski obraz as “literary reportage”, this article especially takes into consideration the challenges of genre hybridity and focuses on emigrant identity as the main topic of Svit’s work. The reportage namely looks at the question of identity – especially the preservation of its components – from three different perspectives: the point of view of the narrator; of the Argentines of Slovene descent; and that of the Polish writer Witold Gombrowicz. The latter is given an important role in the reader’s perception of the entire story. He is an “outsider”, not ravelled into web of the Slovene identity, yet still has the experience of emigrant life and can therefore relate to many of its aspects. The narrator quotes and comments on his thoughts – as he voiced them in his diaries and correspondence – in order to support a final realization about the polyphonic character of identity.
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Brina Svit, Das slowenische Gesicht (Slovenski obraz), Witold Gombrowicz, argentinische Slowenen, Emigration, Identität, autobiographischer Diskurs, literarische Reportage, Brina Svit, The Slovene face (Slovenski obraz), Witold Gombrowicz, Argentines of Slovene descent, emigrants, identity, autobiographical discourse, literary reportage
Citation
Lidija Rezoničnik, "Das slowenische Gesicht: Literarische Reportage über Auswandereridentitäten/The Slovene Face: a Literary Reportage on Emigrant Identities", in "Slavica Tergestina 20 (2018/I)", Trieste, EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste, 2018, pp. 174-195