Family Constellations in Contemporary Ibero-American and Slavic Literatures : Historical Imaginary, Transnationality, Narrative Form.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Artwińska, Anna.

Contributor:

Calderón, Ángela.

Welge, Jobst.

Konsortium der sächsischen Hochschulbibliotheken, Funder.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (298 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin/Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2024.

Summary:

This volume examines Ibero-American as well as Slavic literatures of the 21st century and studies how historical imaginaries in family narratives are functionalized for both individual and collective and (post-)national identities. The analysis proceeds along three conceptual axes. What these narratives have in common is that they construct specific constellations of the historical imagination and of family, whereby ‘family’ is here conceived not so much as an organic micro-unity, but rather as changing, multiple relations between individual members, godparents, first- and second-degree relatives, non-blood-related family members, present and absent members, adopted children, etc. Furthermore, these novels are often grounded in trans-generational memories. They are written by members of a generation that, as a rule, did not directly experience these historical events. It is also significant that these narratives are no longer conceived as representing national identities, but paradigmatically speak for a collective that defines itself in regional, ethnic, religious or ideological terms. It seems, therefore, that these narratives of family constellations are in need of more flexible typological rubrics and interpretive frameworks. Intended as a sustained comparative study of these family narratives, this volume is a contribution in understanding how historical caesura, experiences, and their literary representation work on the self-understanding of the present.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introductory Matter

Family Constellations in Contemporary Ibero-American and Slavic Literatures

Overview of the Volume

1 Transnational Relations/Constellations

Horror, not Nostalgia. Socialism, Diaspora and Family in Cuban and Polish Post-Millennium Graphic Novels

Family Riddles, Entangled Catastrophes, and Cultural Translation in Bernardo Kucinski’s K and Maciej Zaremba Bielawski’s The House with the Two Towers

Merging Public and Private Identities: Topics in Twenty-First Century Portuguese Novels

Memory, History, and the Fragmentation of Family: José Luís Peixoto’s Multi-Generational Novel Book

2 Transgenerational/Transtemporal Relations

Transgenerational Trauma and Maternal Criticism in a Decolonial Perspective

Entangled Temporalities and Symptomatic Revisions of the Family Archive in Gastón Solnicki’s Papirosen

Old New Families and (Good) Old Magic Realism between Brazil and Czechia: Markéta Pilátová’s With Bata in the Jungle

Autofiction, Transnationality, and Family Constellations in the Work of Eduardo Halfon

Legacies of Repression and the Siege: Ol’ga Lavrent’eva’s Graphic Novel Survilo as a Family History of Trauma

3 Imagined Bonds, New Formations

On the (Im-)Possibilities of Family Narratives in Times of Violence. Writing Family Novels after García Márquez: Roberto Bolaño, Héctor Abad Faciolince, and Pilar Quintana

Transgenerational Imagery in Sofia Andrukhovych’s Novella Collection Old People

“They are my family”: Cross-Border and Alternative Communities in Cuban Cold War Narratives

‘The More Blood Ties, the More Family.’ Deconstructing Biological Bonds in Sara Mesa’s The Family

Notes on Contributors

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ISBN:

9783111208664

3111208664

OCLC:

1463080119