Publication Title

Canadian Slavonic Papers

Document Type

Article

Department or Program

German and Russian Studies

Publication Date

1-21-2019

Keywords

German-Polish authors, migrant literature, Poland, Steffen Möller, travel narratives

Abstract

This article discusses the German-Polish author Steffen Möller and his self-presentation as a “betweener” in the works Viva Polonia (2008), Expedition to the Poles (2012), and Viva Warszawa (2015). The article construes it as a central concept of Möller’s narratives about Poland by connecting it with Greg Madison’s phenomenon of “existential migration.” The analysis of the motif of train travel in Möller’s oeuvre points out the author’s rendering of Marc Augé’s “non-places” as spatial zones of transition and heterotopias, which accommodate shifting senses of time and place, allow for the subverting of established social hierarchies and narrative structures, and are characterized by their own idiom and avoidance of linearity.

Comments

Original version is available from the publisher at: https://doi.org/10.1080/00085006.2018.1557452

Copyright Note

This is the author's version of the work. This publication appears in Bates College's institutional repository by permission of the copyright owner for personal use, not for redistribution.

Required Publisher's Statement

This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Canadian Slavonic Papers in 2019, available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/00085006.2018.1557452

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