Global characters. Terézia Mora's "Alle Tage" as transcultural literature in the age of globalisation

Term Paper , 2018 , 14 Pages , Grade: 2,0

Literature - Comparative Literature

In this essay, I argue that Terézia Mora with her novel "Alle Tage" ("Day In Day Out", 2004) breaks with all German literary categorisations and is able to catch the ambiguity and disorientation of the 21st century from multiple viewpoints, in the setting of migrant experience. "Alle Tage" is a piece of transcultural literature, not only in the broad sense of being "concerned with borders and borderlands between cultures", but more specifically because it is able to capture "the identities emerging from these locations" (Gerstenberger 2004: 212).

It will be the aim of this essay to show how Alle Tage is moving away from the notion of a “stable” German identity towards complex identities in the age of globalisation. In this way the migrant becomes a metaphor of the century itself, and one-sided "we" and "them" arguments become redundant. "Alle Tage" has the ability to hold a mirror up to us.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Theoretical framework

Place and Time in Alle Tage

Narration and language

Global Characters

Conclusion

Literature

• College: University of Groningen
• Grade: 2,0
• Publication Year: 2018
• Pages: 14
• Catalog Number: V430819
• ISBN (eBook): 9783668737914
• ISBN (Book): 9783668737921
• Language: English
• Tags: terézia, mora, alle tage, terezia mora, transcultural, literature, migrantenliteratur, globalisierungsliteratur, globalisierung, migrationsliteratur, transkulturell