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- Title
Julya Rabinowich's Transnational Poetics: Staging Border-Crossings in Theater and Fiction.
- Authors
GUENTHER, CHRISTINA EIKO
- Abstract
This article explores how contemporary Austrian writer Julya Rabinowich engages literary genres to foreground experiences and consequences of migration and, thereby, encourages a critical dialogue about social justice and human rights across borders. Focusing on her novels Spaltkopf (2008) and Erdfresserin (2012) as well as three of her dramatic works debuting between 2009 and 2014, I elucidate how Rabinowich uses narrative and theatrical representation in this era of unprecedented mass migration as a powerful antidote to the prevalent "toxic narrative" (Swing) that equates migrants with catastrophic natural disasters and a threat to the economic stability of the West. The article considers how Rabinowich's transnational fiction and her integration of "other" traumas resulting from persecution and flight provide a complex transnational lens through which to challenge and reconfigure dominant discourses of migration. It also considers Rabinowich's contribution to the process of transnational memory- making and its implications regarding collective identity construction in this transnational era.
- Subjects
POETICS; PLAY within a play; MUSICAL theater; TRANSNATIONALISM; THEATER
- Publication
Women in German Yearbook, 2017, Vol 33, p128
- ISSN
1058-7446
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5250/womgeryearbook.33.2017.0128