LEADER 04137ctm a2200457Ic 4500001 275662 005 20240621233008.0 006 m o d 007 cr ||||||||||| 008 191002s2019 dcu o 000 0 eng 035 (OCoLC)on1121476842 035 275662 049 LHMA 040 DGU |beng |erda |cDGU |dOCLCO |dOCLCF |dLHM 100 1 Killian, Doria Beth, |eauthor. |0(orcid)https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0087-7542 245 10 And You Shall Tell Your Children: The Intersection of Memory, Identity, and Narrative in Contemporary German Jewish Autofiction. 264 0 Washington, DC |bGeorgetown University |c2019. 300 210 leaves 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 347 text file |2rdaft 502 Ph.D. |bGeorgetown University-Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, German |c2019 500 Advisor: Friederike Eigler 520 This dissertation examines the autofictional works of three Jewish women writing in German, combining a close textual analysis with a narratological framework in order to understand how narrative, storytelling, and writing are used at both the diegetic and meta-levels to negotiate familial and cultural memory and to construct a contemporary German Jewish identity. The works analyzed herein-Barbara Honigmann's Roman von einem Kinde (1986), Damals, dann und danach (1999), and Ein Kapitel aus meinem Lebens (2004); Gila Lustiger's So sind wir (2005); and Katja Petrowskaja's Vielleicht Esther (2015)-are all written by second- or third-generation post-Holocaust Jews whose familial pasts include stories of exile, deportation, and internment, and whose individual presents are marked by trauma, intergenerational silence, and multiplex identities. As they navigate these heavy subjects, interweaving stories of their parents' and grandparents' lives alongside tales from their own childhoods and contemporary lives, each of these authors also thematizes narrative itself, rendering storytelling, writing, and literature as significant to these works as the stories and anecdotes contained within them. Using memory theory from a variety of scholars to examine this thematization of narrative and its connection to memory, identity, and family dynamics, I argue that, rather than being used to merely recount the past, narrative in these works becomes the very site in which familial and individual identity is constructed and construed. In addition, each chapter also centers on a narratological element that is particularly salient in each of the three authors' work, specifically: plot/narrativity, metanarration, and intertextuality. I then relate the thematization of narrative at the diegetic level to the author's own construction of narrative at the meta-level, using feminist narratological scholarship to explore the interrelation of content and form. This dissertation serves to further the ongoing scholarly conversation on memory, identity, and belonging in relation to contemporary German Jewish life and, in its conception of narrative as contingent on cultural context rather than as proceeding from universal norms, also contributes to postclassical feminist narratology and works to broaden our understanding of the role of narrative in human life. 530 Electronic version |bavailable internally at USHMM 591 Record updated by Marcive processing 21 June 2024 650 0 Germanic literature. 650 0 Jews |xResearch. 655 7 Literature. |2lcgft 650 4 German literature. 650 4 Judaic studies. 650 4 Literature. 650 7 Germanic literature. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00942045 650 7 Jews |xResearch. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00983347 650 7 Literature. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00999953 653 autofiction, German-Jewish, identity, memory, narrative 700 1 Eigler, Friederike, |eadvisor. 710 2 Georgetown University, |edegree granting institution. 956 41 |3Electronic version available |zHosted by USHMM |uhttp://dc.ushmm.org/bib275662/22622646.pdf 852 |bebook