Strukturen autobiographischen Schreibens in der Literatur der jüdischen 'générations d'après'

• Autores: Thomas Nolden
• Localización: Romanische Forschungen, ISSN-e 1864-0737, Vol. 115, Nº. 4, 2003, págs. 447-467
• Idioma: alemán
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• Resumen

  • The article presents autobiographical texts by Jewish-French authors born after the Shoah against the backdrop of survivor memoirs and distinguishes a variety of narrative features that characterize contemporary écriture de soi. The usage of the metaphors of the mirror and the gaze which figured prominently in Sartre's seminal construction of the Jew had also structured the relationship between Jewish narrator and anti-Semite in earlier autobiographies. These metaphors, however, have given way to intriguing notions of self-conception. The authors of the générations d'après no longer recognize their particularity in the gaze of the gentile Other. Instead, in the act of autobiographical writing they assert their Jewishness either as part of a mission that relates from genealogical ties or as part of a project of self-creation — or autojudéographie — that introduces them, as it were, to the covenant as Juifs de volonté.