At the border between worlds. (Re)construction of the lost homeland in Natasha Wodin's novel «She came from Mariupol»

Abstract

The paper deals with the constructs of the lost homeland in the novel She came from Mariupol by Natascha Wodin. The analysis focuses on the manifold boundaries and transgressions reflected by Wodin from a post-migrant perspective. On various aesthetic levels, the paper examines how the boundaries between memory and forgetting, homeland and abroad, mental maps and landscape descriptions shape the image of Mariupol.