TY  - CHAP
A1  - Assmann, Aleida
T1  - Die transformative Kraft der Sprache : Reden und Schweigen in der neuen deutschen Erinnerungsliteratur
T2  - Acta Germanica - German studies in Africa
N2  - The concept of the “magic circle” (Johan Huizinga) defines the stage and the specific performative conditions for magic to work. This concept which was applied by Huizinga to spaces such as the courtroom, the church or the theatre is extended in this essay to the page of the literary text. It is argued that something of the age-old magic of oral poetry is preserved in contemporary German memory fiction that stages an encounter with dead family members. In novels by Peter Härtling (Nachgetragene Liebe) and Uwe Timm (Am Beispiel meines Bruders) a repressed past is emotionally revisited and at the same time exposed to new reflection in the light of hindsight. The therapeutic setting of “family constellation” is introduced as another manifestation of the magic circle in our contemporary world in which latent traumas are acted out and worked through in a cathartic process.
KW  - Erinnerung
KW  - Literatur
KW  - deutsch
KW  - Sprechen <Motiv>
KW  - Schweigen <Motiv>
Y1  - 2015
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/36434
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-364343
SN  - 978-3-631-62246-9
VL  - 39
SP  - 105
EP  - 116
PB  - Peter Lang
CY  - Frankfurt am Main [u.a.]
ER  -