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A Literary Anthropology of Migration and BelongingIn Search of a Suitable Home or the Perpetual Minority Status: Herta Müller’s Case

A Literary Anthropology of Migration and Belonging: In Search of a Suitable Home or the Perpetual... [This chapter reads Herta Müller’s literature as an auto-ethnographical gaze on various types of oppressive communities. Drawing on Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of minor literature and revising the theoretical approaches to community, the chapter presents how Müller’s characters try to negotiate their lives with the various cultural practices these communities foster. Her characters understand community living as an individual choice in selecting the features and practices. Thus, they face different coercive actions that the community takes against their acts of dissidence. As a result, the impossibility to accept the entire set of communitarian living practices results in a constant feeling of dwelling in an allogenous vernacular, leading to a perceived sense of estranged homeliness. All three communities that Müller’s characters inhabit—the Swabian minority from Banat, communist Romania, and Germany after emigration—prove to be challenging living conditions, making all the characters from her autofictions feel uprooted. As a direct result, they perceive a permanent minority status.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Literary Anthropology of Migration and BelongingIn Search of a Suitable Home or the Perpetual Minority Status: Herta Müller’s Case

Part of the Palgrave Studies in Literary Anthropology Book Series
Editors: Fagerlid, Cicilie; Tisdel, Michelle A.
Stoicescu, Adrian
A Literary Anthropology of Migration and Belonging — Jan 31, 2020
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978-3-030-34795-6
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10.1007/978-3-030-34796-3_3
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Abstract

[This chapter reads Herta Müller’s literature as an auto-ethnographical gaze on various types of oppressive communities. Drawing on Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of minor literature and revising the theoretical approaches to community, the chapter presents how Müller’s characters try to negotiate their lives with the various cultural practices these communities foster. Her characters understand community living as an individual choice in selecting the features and practices. Thus, they face different coercive actions that the community takes against their acts of dissidence. As a result, the impossibility to accept the entire set of communitarian living practices results in a constant feeling of dwelling in an allogenous vernacular, leading to a perceived sense of estranged homeliness. All three communities that Müller’s characters inhabit—the Swabian minority from Banat, communist Romania, and Germany after emigration—prove to be challenging living conditions, making all the characters from her autofictions feel uprooted. As a direct result, they perceive a permanent minority status.]

Published: Jan 31, 2020

Keywords: Allogenous vernacular; Estrangement; Minority; Cultural authoritarianism

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