Zwischen Verbannung und Heimat. Zum kulturellen Selbstfindungsprozess bei in der Schweiz lebenden Zugewanderten am Beispiel Franco Supinos Erzähltextes "Musica Leggera"

Abstract

In the period from the beginning of the 1990s, a significant number of young writers with a migration background became apparent who began to write either in German or in French in multicultural Switzerland. Among them, a special position was occupied by Franco Supino (born 1965), who, with the novel "Musica Leggera" (1995), confirmed a new trend in the German-language Swiss literature, consisting in the literary presentation of the motif of the blurred cultural and national identity among the migrant generation or their children who were already born in Switzerland. Based on the example of the mentioned novel by Franco Supino, the literary interpretation of the motif of identity-forming memories is discussed, as well as cultural belonging, which are expressed differently by the first and the second migrant generation. The paper analyzes the second generation of migrants, often referred to as ‘Secondos’, who develop their identity between the Italian culture traditionally nurtured by their parents and the modern Swiss culture of the 1980s.

Keywords

• secondos
• identity
• memory
• migration background
• second-generation immigrants
• experience of space