TY  - JOUR
A1  - Koch-Fröhlich, Melanie
T1  - S’inventer à partir de l’autre : Les Origines d’Amin Maalouf
T2  - promptus - Würzburger Beiträge zur Romanistik
N2  - The present article examines the narrative modes in which Lebanese author Amin Maalouf investigates his roots in Origines a hybrid work which stands in contrast with his previous essays and fictions as to its (auto)biographical dimension. Resembling what Dominique Viart and Bruno Vercier in their analysis of predominant themes and narrative strategies in contemporary French literature name «récit de filiation», Maalouf’s quest for his familial past explores the concept of intergenerational transmission of memory. However, despite this individual postmemorial approach, Maalouf’s intimate writing is intrinsically linked with the complex history of the Ottoman Empire and therefore with collective narratives of war, diasporic identities, and migration relating to the present time or the recent past.
KW  - (auto)biographical writing
KW  - migration
KW  - nomadic identities
KW  - Ottoman Empire
KW  - memory
Y1  - 2020
UR  - https://opus.bibliothek.uni-wuerzburg.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/24426
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-244268
VL  - 6
ER  -