Peter Waterhouses literarische Verhandlungen der Flucht und Asylsuche: Die Auswandernden (2016)

The article focuses on the prose experiment Die Auswandernden by the Austrian writer Peter Waterhouse and the illustrator Nanne Meyer in 2016. The book falls in the category of literary texts reflecting refugee and asylum-seeker experiences that have appeared on the German book market since 2012. Th...

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Published in:Studia Litteraria Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis 2021, Vol.16 (3), p.211-220
Main Author: Jaśtal, Katarzyna
Format: Article
Language:eng ; ger
Subjects:
Asylum, Refugees, Migration as Policy-fields
Austrian Literature
Fiction
Present Times (2010 - today)
Theory of Literature
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Summary:The article focuses on the prose experiment Die Auswandernden by the Austrian writer Peter Waterhouse and the illustrator Nanne Meyer in 2016. The book falls in the category of literary texts reflecting refugee and asylum-seeker experiences that have appeared on the German book market since 2012. The paper aims to describe the literary strategies Waterhouse uses to represent the refugee condition. It explores the author’s implicit programmatic statements, the construction of the female protagonist as a refugee and asylum seeking figure and Waterhouse’s reflections on language, especially the language of Austrian judiciary system.
ISSN:1897-3035
2084-3933
DOI:10.4467/20843933ST.21.015.14005