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Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Gołębia 24, 31-007 Kraków, Poland

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Zapomnienie jako utrata tożsamości we współczesnej prozie czeskiej i chorwackiej (Katerina Tučková „Wypędzenie Gerty Schnirch”, Ivana Šojat-Kuči „Unterstadt”

Magdalena Dyras

Slavonic Culture, Vol. XVIII, 2022, pp. 191 - 202

https://doi.org/10.4467/25439561KSR.22.014.16366

The fate of the German minority living in the Slavic countries before World War II has become the subject of numerous novels in recent years, not only those whose authors witnessed dramatic events that took place after the end of the war, but also young writers who only learned about the fate of marginalized groups after 1989. Thanks to literature, images of post-war history which until then had been a „blank spot”, started to circulate. The German inhabitants of Brno (Tučková) or Osijek (Šojat-Kuči) were for many years wiped from official memory, erased from historical studies, doomed to social exclusion, loss of their own language and identity. Interestingly, oblivion and erasure also encompass the city space where the characters of the analyzed novels once lived. Selected literary texts make it possible to trace how the image of memory is constructed and how it is manipulated.

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Pamięć „mniejszościowa” i pokaleczona w najnowszej literaturze chorwackiej (na przykładach prozy Ludwiga Bauera, Ivany Šojat Kuči i Slobodana Šnajdera)

Magdalena Dyras

Slavonic Culture, Vol. XVII, 2021, pp. 235 - 248

https://doi.org/10.4467/25439561KSR.21.011.14422

The article deals with the issues of collective and individual memory, based on the example of traumatic experiences of German minority (so-called Swabians) in Yugoslavia (1945-1990). Decades-long confiscation of memory resulted in the loss of identity, which had to be rebuilt after 1990. Literary narratives, motivated by mutilated memory resulting from the authoritarian system, became the way to regain it. These issues are discussed, among others, in three novels, the publication of which met with a lively response from researchers and critics of literature. These are Ludwig Bauer’s A Brief Chronicle of the Weber Family, Ivana Šojat Kuči’s Unterstadt and Slobodan Šnajder’s The Age of Brass. Memory, according to theoretical findings of Elżbieta Rybicka, has been presented both as a literary concept and an existential category. The novels by the above-mentioned authors illustrate how literature becomes a medium and a carrier of memory.

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