After a brief discussion of Grete Weil’s liminal position in the context of Twentieth-Century German-Jewish Women’s Literature, the present contribution outlines the key issues of her prose works between 1949 and 1999 and focuses then on her third novel, “Generations” (1983). As a matter of fact, this often neglected work proves to be a metafiction exploring the possibilities, frustrations and success of German-Jewish Women’s writing in post-war West Germany. Thus, a new interpretation of this audacious novel is put forward. Whereas both the deconstruction of cultural taboos and the construction of a dialogue between three generations of women fail in the fictional “experiment”, they are actually achieved in the literary act of writing.
Generazioni. Memoria, identità e scrittura in Grete Weil / M. Castellari. - In: ALTRE MODERNITÀ. - ISSN 2035-7680. - numero speciale 2014 "Letteratura Ebraica ‘al femminile’":(2014), pp. 131-143. ((Intervento presentato al convegno La letteratura ebraica al femminile tenutosi a Milano nel 2012 [10.13130/2035-7680/3979].
Generazioni. Memoria, identità e scrittura in Grete Weil
M. Castellari
2014
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After a brief discussion of Grete Weil’s liminal position in the context of Twentieth-Century German-Jewish Women’s Literature, the present contribution outlines the key issues of her prose works between 1949 and 1999 and focuses then on her third novel, “Generations” (1983). As a matter of fact, this often neglected work proves to be a metafiction exploring the possibilities, frustrations and success of German-Jewish Women’s writing in post-war West Germany. Thus, a new interpretation of this audacious novel is put forward. Whereas both the deconstruction of cultural taboos and the construction of a dialogue between three generations of women fail in the fictional “experiment”, they are actually achieved in the literary act of writing.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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