Paradise Lost / Paradise Found, Motherland Lost, Motherland Found? The Images of Poland and Germany in the Debut Novel of Alexandra Tobor Sitzen vier Polen im Auto. Teutonische Abenteuer
The subject of the following analysis is the debut novel by Alexandra Tobor, a representative of „young prose with Polish roots“ within the German Literature. In her novel, the author depicts the departure of the child protagonist and her family from Poland to Germany in the late 1980s as a kind of...
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The subject of the following analysis is the debut novel by Alexandra Tobor, a representative of „young prose with Polish roots“ within the German Literature. In her novel, the author depicts the departure of the child protagonist and her family from Poland to Germany in the late 1980s as a kind of „clash of civilizations“ (Huntington 1997). The aim of this paper, therefore, is to examine what narrative strategies the author uses to present the binary oppositions between the original culture and the host culture. By following the course of the story and the distribution of thematic and emotional accents in it, I will try to prove that the formula of „paradise lost“ and „paradise found“ used in the title reflects the complexity of the protagonist's liminal state and the image of Poland and Germany presented in the novel.
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| spelling | doaj.art-c434979fe7a740d998273d4d2c0846bb2023-11-16T03:50:12ZdeuPomeranian University Publishing HousePolilog: Studia Neofilologiczne2083-54852023-11-011313Paradise Lost / Paradise Found, Motherland Lost, Motherland Found? The Images of Poland and Germany in the Debut Novel of Alexandra Tobor Sitzen vier Polen im Auto. Teutonische AbenteuerEliza Szymańska0a:1:{s:5:"en_US";s:20:"Uniwersytet Gdański";} The subject of the following analysis is the debut novel by Alexandra Tobor, a representative of „young prose with Polish roots“ within the German Literature. In her novel, the author depicts the departure of the child protagonist and her family from Poland to Germany in the late 1980s as a kind of „clash of civilizations“ (Huntington 1997). The aim of this paper, therefore, is to examine what narrative strategies the author uses to present the binary oppositions between the original culture and the host culture. By following the course of the story and the distribution of thematic and emotional accents in it, I will try to prove that the formula of „paradise lost“ and „paradise found“ used in the title reflects the complexity of the protagonist's liminal state and the image of Poland and Germany presented in the novel. https://polilog.pl/index.php/polilog/article/view/511 |
| spellingShingle | Eliza Szymańska Paradise Lost / Paradise Found, Motherland Lost, Motherland Found? The Images of Poland and Germany in the Debut Novel of Alexandra Tobor Sitzen vier Polen im Auto. Teutonische Abenteuer Polilog: Studia Neofilologiczne |
| title | Paradise Lost / Paradise Found, Motherland Lost, Motherland Found? The Images of Poland and Germany in the Debut Novel of Alexandra Tobor Sitzen vier Polen im Auto. Teutonische Abenteuer |
| title_full | Paradise Lost / Paradise Found, Motherland Lost, Motherland Found? The Images of Poland and Germany in the Debut Novel of Alexandra Tobor Sitzen vier Polen im Auto. Teutonische Abenteuer |
| title_fullStr | Paradise Lost / Paradise Found, Motherland Lost, Motherland Found? The Images of Poland and Germany in the Debut Novel of Alexandra Tobor Sitzen vier Polen im Auto. Teutonische Abenteuer |
| title_full_unstemmed | Paradise Lost / Paradise Found, Motherland Lost, Motherland Found? The Images of Poland and Germany in the Debut Novel of Alexandra Tobor Sitzen vier Polen im Auto. Teutonische Abenteuer |
| title_short | Paradise Lost / Paradise Found, Motherland Lost, Motherland Found? The Images of Poland and Germany in the Debut Novel of Alexandra Tobor Sitzen vier Polen im Auto. Teutonische Abenteuer |
| title_sort | paradise lost paradise found motherland lost motherland found the images of poland and germany in the debut novel of alexandra tobor sitzen vier polen im auto teutonische abenteuer |
| url | https://polilog.pl/index.php/polilog/article/view/511 |
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