The conference will study Slavic and Ibero-American literatures of the 21st century and pursue questions about how historical experiences in family narratives are functionalized for a collective\u2019s own formation of identity.<\/p>\n
The conference draws on three main conceptual axes: What these narratives have in common is that they each construct specific constellations of the historical imagination and of family, whereby \u201cfamily\u201d 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. It seems, therefore, that these novels are only insufficiently characterized as \u201cfamily novels,\u201d and are in need of different typological rubrics and interpretive frameworks.<\/p>\n
Furthermore, what characterizes these historically grounded novels of both areas is that they often are post-generational: They are written by members of a generation which, as a rule, did not directly experience these historical events, which are still seen as constitutive for the interpretation of the present and present identities. It is also significant that these narratives are no longer conceived as representing national identities, but paradigmatically speak for a collective that defined itself as detached from national frames and boundaries, be they regional, ethnic, religious, or ideological. At the same time, the comparative confrontation between Ibero-American and Slavic literatures promises fruitful discussions regarding the differences and similarities (experiences of war, political ideologies, post-dictatorship) across a spectrum of contemporary works of literature.<\/p>\n
Also a digital participation is possible<\/strong>. To obtain a Zoom-Link, please write to angela.calderon@uni-leipzig.de<\/a>.<\/p>\n Programme:<\/strong><\/p>\n 23.11.2022<\/span> \/ Bibliotheca Albertina, Beethovenstr. 06, 04107 Leipzig<\/p>\n 13.30\u201314.30 Welcome and Opening Remarks 14.30\u201316.00 Transnational Experiences, Fragmented Forms 16.30\u201317.30 Keynote 24.11.2022<\/span> \/ Polnisches Institut, Markt 10, 04109 Leipzig<\/p>\n 9.00\u201310.30 Imagined Lineages 11.00\u201312.00 Keynote 13.30\u201315.00 Transnational Constellations, Violent Histories 15.30-16.30 Memories, Archives, Nostalgia 16.45\u201317.30 24.11.2022<\/span> \/ 19.00\u201320.30 \/ die naTo, Karl-Liebknecht-Stra\u00dfe 46, 04275 Leipzig Organizers: Anna Artwi\u0144ska<\/strong>, Angela Calder\u00f3n<\/strong> & Jobst Welge<\/strong> \/ Institut f\u00fcr Romanistik & Institut f\u00fcr Slavistik der Universit\u00e4t Leipzig<\/p>\n\n\n\n Info: <\/strong>www.romanistik.de\/aktuelles\/6436<\/a>, www.philol.uni-leipzig.de\/institut-fuer-slavistik<\/a> \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Anna Artwi\u0144ska<\/strong>, Jobst Welge<\/strong>, \u00c1ngela Calder\u00f3n<\/strong> (Leipzig): Family Constellations: Concepts, Symptoms, Perspectives<\/em><\/p>\n
Anja Tippner<\/strong> (Hamburg): The Family Novel as Memory Form: Transnational Constellations in Dovlatov, Stepanova, Ulitskaia<\/em>
Natasha Gordinsky<\/strong> (Haifa, Israel): Genre and Its Discontents: Family Novel in Post-Soviet Jewish Literature<\/em>
Joanna Moszczynska<\/strong> (Regensburg): O remanescente: o tempo no ex\u00edlio (2016) by Rafael Cardoso: Between History and Memory<\/em>
Chair: Petra James<\/p>\n
Tamara Hundorova<\/strong> (Kyiv, Ukraine): Narrating Intergenerational Trauma and Anti-Maternalistic Critique in Post-Independent Ukrainian Literature<\/em><\/p>\n
B\u0142a\u017cej Warkocki<\/strong> (Pozna\u0144, Poland): Family of Choice and History (in Polish Literature)<\/em>
Adriana Rodr\u00edguez Alfonso<\/strong> (Salamanca, Spain): Cross-Border and Alternative Communities in Cuban Cold War Narratives<\/em>
Petra James<\/strong> (Brussels, Belgium): Novels of Female Lineage in Czech Literature \u2014 Soft, Capitalist, and Sellable Feminism?<\/em>
Chair: Matteo Colombi<\/strong><\/p>\n
F\u00e1tima Marinho<\/strong> (Porto, Portugal): Merging Public and Private Identities: Topics on 21st Century Portuguese Novels<\/em><\/p>\n
Pablo Valdivia<\/strong> (Frankfurt an der Oder): On the (Im-)Possibilities of Family Narratives in Times of Violence: Writing Family Novels after Garc\u00eda M\u00e1rquez<\/em>
Serena Cianciotto<\/strong> (Leipzig): Violence, Repetition, and Interrogation of the Self: Personal and National (Hi-)Story in Jos\u00e9 Lu\u00eds Peixoto\u2019s <\/em>Generational Novel Livro (2010)<\/em>
Matteo Colombi<\/strong> (Leipzig): Old New Families and (Good) Old Magical Realism between Southern America and Czechia: <\/em>S Ba\u0165ou v d\u017eungli by Mark\u00e9ta Pil\u00e1tov\u00e1 and <\/em>S\u00edndrome de Praga by Juan Pablo Bertazza<\/em>
Chair: Anne Br\u00fcske<\/strong><\/p>\n
Michael Karrer<\/strong> (Halle-Wittenberg): No Home Movies. Political Uses of the Family Archive in Argentine Documentary Film<\/em>
Libu\u0161e Heczkov\u00e1<\/strong> (Prague, Czech Republic): Zone Most. Coal, Booze, and Memory Loss. Searching for Viable Relationships in the Literature of the North Bohemian Coal Basin<\/em><\/p>\n
Anne Br\u00fcske<\/strong> (Regensburg) & Karoline Thaidigsmann<\/strong> (Heidelberg): Entangled Narratives of Horror and<\/em>
Nostalgia. Socialism and Family in Diasporic Cuban and Polish Post-Millennium Graphic Novels<\/em>
Chair: Pablo Valdivia<\/strong><\/p>\n
Reading \/ Book Presentation of Aurora Venturini\u2019s Die Cousinen (Las Primas)<\/em> with Johanna Schwering<\/strong>, Jobst Welge<\/strong> & \u00c1ngela Calder\u00f3n<\/strong><\/p>\n
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Ort:<\/strong> Bibliotheca Albertina, Beethovenstr. 06, 04107 Leipzig,
Polnisches Institut, Markt 10, 04109 Leipzig &
die naTo, Karl-Liebknecht-Stra\u00dfe 46, 04275 Leipzig<\/p>\n
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