„Der Dritte Raum“ als Aushandlungsort des postsowjetischen Traumas. Zu Migrationsromanen von Julya Rabinowich „Spaltkopf“ und Lena Gorelik „Die Listensammlerin“

Abstract

“Spaltkopf” (2008) by Julya Rabinovich and “Die Listensammlerin” (2013) by Lena Gorelick belong to migrant novels in which cultural signs creatively cross both at the level of inter-character relationships, and at the level of aesthetics. The essay analyses the two texts comparing how they productively collide and confront Russian, Soviet and German cultures and how they construct their contemporary protagonists as representatives of younger generations facing family traumas of the past. The article focuses on the employed aesthetic techniques which result from the mutual interpenetration of cultures and whose meaning is interpreted after Homi K. Bhabha’s concept of hybridisation.

Keywords

• Julya Rabinovich
• Lena Gorelik
• migrant novels
• Soviet trauma
• “third space”