Mullemänner: Dealing with Austria's Past and Weak Masculinity in Arno Geiger's 'Es geht uns gut' and Doron Rabinovici's 'Suche nach M'.
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The Austrian Noughties: Texts, Films, Debates. Hrsg. / Allyson Fiddler; John Hughes; Florian Krobb. Modern Humanities Research Association, 2011. S. 98-112 (Austrian Studies; Band 19).
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T1 - Mullemänner: Dealing with Austria's Past and Weak Masculinity in Arno Geiger's 'Es geht uns gut' and Doron Rabinovici's 'Suche nach M'.
AU - Gratzke, Michael
N1 - M1 - Chapter
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - Recent debates on the success of a new brand of family novels emphasize the difference between the Vääterliteratur of the 1970s, which posited a rupture between the generations, and new family narratives based on generational continuity. In texts such as Grass's Im Krebsgang, this continuity is expressed as a trans-generational transfer of trauma adapted from stories written from a Jewish perspective. This article argues that a cultural re-evaluation of victimhood runs in parallel to the creation of male characters who fail to meet expectations. It concentrates on Geiger's Es geht uns gut and Rabinovici's Suche nach M. which also tackle the specifically Austrian discourse of victimhood. Finally, the tension between realistic and non-realistic writing strategies is discussed in order to explore the possibility of a productive engagement with traumas of the past.
AB - Recent debates on the success of a new brand of family novels emphasize the difference between the Vääterliteratur of the 1970s, which posited a rupture between the generations, and new family narratives based on generational continuity. In texts such as Grass's Im Krebsgang, this continuity is expressed as a trans-generational transfer of trauma adapted from stories written from a Jewish perspective. This article argues that a cultural re-evaluation of victimhood runs in parallel to the creation of male characters who fail to meet expectations. It concentrates on Geiger's Es geht uns gut and Rabinovici's Suche nach M. which also tackle the specifically Austrian discourse of victimhood. Finally, the tension between realistic and non-realistic writing strategies is discussed in order to explore the possibility of a productive engagement with traumas of the past.
KW - Literature studies
U2 - 10.5699/austrianstudies.19.2011.0098
DO - 10.5699/austrianstudies.19.2011.0098
M3 - Contributions to collected editions/anthologies
SN - 978-1-907322-38-9
T3 - Austrian Studies
SP - 98
EP - 112
BT - The Austrian Noughties
A2 - Fiddler, Allyson
A2 - Hughes, John
A2 - Krobb, Florian
PB - Modern Humanities Research Association
ER -