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- Title
Warum das Kind in der Polenta kocht – ‚Unheimliche Heimat(en)‘ bei Aglaja Veteranyi.
- Authors
CORNEJO, RENATA
- Abstract
Aglaja Veterayi’s novel Warum das Kind in der Polenta kocht (1999) focuses on the failed integration of the first-person narrator, a circus nomad, who tries to gain a foothold as an artist in the materially secure environment of her new homeland, Switzerland. The article aims to investigate the role of emotions in the design of identity and home, and asks to what extent the new, promising homeland for the protagonist gradually becomes “unheimlich”. At the same time, traces of inner insecurity and anxiety as well as family violence are explored, which are gradually brought up by exposing the repressed childhood memories of the first-person narrator. As a result, the at first positively perceived counterpart to Switzerland – the image of the ‘Romanian circus home’ – turns out to be an “unheimliches”/uncanny home, too.
- Subjects
SWITZERLAND; DOMESTIC violence; EARLY memories; MEMORY in literature; DOMESTIC architecture; CIRCUS; NARRATORS
- Publication
Aussiger Beiträge, 2018, Issue 12, p161
- ISSN
1802-6419
- Publication type
Article