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      Prägende Bindungen in Tanja Dückers’s Novels: An Analysis of Transgenerational Family Memory

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      Modern Languages Open
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          The depiction of transgenerational memory and trauma within the family features prominently in novels by so-called third generation German authors, such as Tanja Duckers. This generation of authors in Germany has been labeled apolitical or unconstrained by the past. My analysis of Duckers’ statements in interviews and non-fictional texts, and her novels, in particular, Himmelskorper (2002) and Der langste Tag des Jahres ( 2006), shows that this is not the case. In fact, her fictional portrayal of familial influences and transgenerational memory and trauma illustrates the way contemporary German families may continue to be impacted by their family members’ experiences during Germany’s National Socialism period.

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              “Deutsch sein heißt tarnen. Kopf in den Sand: Tanja Dückers weckt Wüstentierinstinkte”

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                2052-5397
                Modern Languages Open
                Liverpool University Press
                2052-5397
                05 December 2017
                : 2017
                : 4
                : 4
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                [-1]Indiana State University Terre Haute, Indiana, US
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                10.3828/mlo.v0i0.181
                7c2e073e-a882-4bb4-a393-94d0862872f6
                Copyright: © 2017 The Author(s)

                This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

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                Comparative literature studies,Philosophy of language,Literature of other nations & languages,Languages of Europe

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