Kafka in Lviv. Mental Maps of Eastern Europe in the Novel «Anatolin» by Hans-Ulrich Treichel

Authors

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13136/2724-4202/1074

Keywords:

mental maps, post-migrational literature, topography, Eastern European studies, intertestuality

Abstract

The article investigates how the mental maps of Eastern Europe influences the representation of space in the novel Anatolin (2008) by Hans-Ulrich Treichel, and how they interact with the protagonist's cultural orientations and search for identity. The analysis shows how the variety of geographic, political, cultural, and imaginary maps cannot dissolve the influence of traditional maps, which associate Eastern Europe territories to 'empty spaces' or topographic chaos.

Author Biography

  • Ievgeniia Voloshchuk, Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder)

    Prof. Dr., Literaturwissenschaftlerin,

    akademische Mitarbeiterin am Axel Springer-Lehrstuhl für deutsch-jüdische Literatur- und Kulturgeschichte, Exil und Migration der Europa-Uiversität Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder)

Downloads

Published

2021-12-31

Issue

No. 2 (2021)

Section

Miscellaneous Section

License

Copyright (c) 2021 Ievgeniia Voloshchuk

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.