Recollective Processes and the âTopography of Forgettingâ in W.G. Sebaldâs Austerlitz

Silke Horstkotte

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Recollective Processes and the âTopography of Forgettingâ in W.G. Sebaldâs Austerlitz

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Pages:: 193â202

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789401203807_016

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Recollective Processes and the âTopography of Forgettingâ in W.G. Sebaldâs Austerlitz

Employing recent conceptualizations of cultural memory (Assmann, Huyssen, Crewe), the article examines the poetics of remembering and forgetting in W.G. Sebaldâs novel Austerlitz (2001). Displaced from his native Prague with one of the Red Cross âKindertransporteâ of 1937/38, Sebaldâs protagonist leads a life that is characterized by geographical displacement as well as by suppressed and inaccessible childhood memories. Horstkotte reads Austerlitzâ search for his past and the novelâs topographic and archaeological view of memory as a metafictional and intermedial model for overcoming amnesia on a cultural level.

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Diaspora and Memory

Figures of Displacement in Contemporary Literature, Arts and Politics

Series:Â Thamyris/Intersecting: Place, Sex and Race Online, Volume: 13Â andÂ Thamyris/Intersecting: Place, Sex and Race, Volume: 13

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Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 01 Jan 2006

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