Zwischen Heimatverlust und unsicherer Gegenwart: Sozialer Wandel in "Zonenkinder" (2002) von Jana Hensel und "Scotch" (2010) von Ioana Bradea

  • My paper will explore the interrelation between past, present and identity, as well as the dynamics of social change in contemporary German and Romanian literature, as exemplified by Jana Hensel’s Zonenkinder (2002) and Ioana Bradea’s Scotch (2010). Both authors belong to a new generation of writers who, having experienced the collapse of the communist regime as adolescents, investigate the traumatic experience of change and adjustment to the social, economic and cultural realities of post-communist societies. While Hensel aims at recreating the lost Heimat (motherland) as an Erinnerungsraum (space of remembrance) and portraying the social tensions of the post-unification decade from an Eastern German perspective, Bradea focuses on depicting the desolate post-communist industrial landscape, as well as the everyday lives of anonymous Romanians caught in the vagaries of transition.

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Author:Roxana Andreea GhiţăGND
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-650887
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2478/gb-2020-0007
ISSN:2247-4633
ISSN:1454-5144
Parent Title (German):Germanistische Beiträge
Publisher:Lehrstuhl für Germanistik an der Lucian-Blaga-Universität Sibiu/Hermannstadt
Place of publication:Sibiu / Hermannstadt
Document Type:Article
Language:German
Date of Publication (online):2020/08/05
Date of first Publication:2020/08/05
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:2022/01/13
Tag:Eastern Germany; Ioana Bradea; Jana Hensel; Romania; memory; post-communist industrial landscape; social change
Volume:46
Page Number:18
First Page:142
Last Page:159
HeBIS-PPN:490072844
Dewey Decimal Classification:8 Literatur / 85 Italienische, rumänische, rätoromanische Literaturen / 850 Italienische, rumänische, rätoromanische Literaturen
Sammlungen:Germanistik / GiNDok
Zeitschriften / Jahresberichte:Germanistische Beiträge / Germanistische Beiträge 46.2020
:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-650811
Licence (German):License LogoCreative Commons - Namensnennung-Nicht kommerziell-Keine Bearbeitung 3.0