The mimicry of dialogue: Thomas Lehr’s september. Fata Morgana (2010)
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The mimicry of dialogue : Thomas Lehr’s september. Fata Morgana (2010). / Frank, Svenja.
9/11 in European Literature: Negotiating Identities against the Attacks and What Followed. Hrsg. / Svenja Frank. Cham : Springer International Publishing AG, 2017. S. 253-282.Publikation: Beiträge in Sammelwerken › Aufsätze in Sammelwerken › Forschung
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T1 - The mimicry of dialogue
T2 - Thomas Lehr’s september. Fata Morgana (2010)
AU - Frank, Svenja
PY - 2017/1/1
Y1 - 2017/1/1
N2 - This new reading of the German 9/11 novel September. Fata Morgana (2010) by Thomas Lehr challenges its prevalent interpretation as an East-West dialogue of cultures. Unveiling the narrative’s hitherto neglected unreliability, the chapter argues that rather it displays a mimicry of dialogue which confronts the reader with their own Eurocentricism. Through the analysis of narrative, motivic and intertextual elements, the chapter demonstrates that the cultural approximation is not the result of dialogue but of a European appropriation of the Eastern Other. Giving a special emphasis to German 9/11 cultural responses, it then contextualises Lehr’s manifold conjunction of the September attacks and the theme of mimicry in the wider 9/11 discourse before consolidating the argument with a view of the novel’s historical pessimism.
AB - This new reading of the German 9/11 novel September. Fata Morgana (2010) by Thomas Lehr challenges its prevalent interpretation as an East-West dialogue of cultures. Unveiling the narrative’s hitherto neglected unreliability, the chapter argues that rather it displays a mimicry of dialogue which confronts the reader with their own Eurocentricism. Through the analysis of narrative, motivic and intertextual elements, the chapter demonstrates that the cultural approximation is not the result of dialogue but of a European appropriation of the Eastern Other. Giving a special emphasis to German 9/11 cultural responses, it then contextualises Lehr’s manifold conjunction of the September attacks and the theme of mimicry in the wider 9/11 discourse before consolidating the argument with a view of the novel’s historical pessimism.
KW - Literature studies
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-64209-3_10
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-64209-3_10
M3 - Contributions to collected editions/anthologies
AN - SCOPUS:85042775148
SN - 9783319642086
SP - 253
EP - 282
BT - 9/11 in European Literature
A2 - Frank, Svenja
PB - Springer International Publishing AG
CY - Cham
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