TY  - JOUR
A1  - Sandberg, Beatrice
A2  - Eder, Emily
A2  - Jeanneret, Sylvie
A2  - Müller, Ralph
T1  - Steckt unsere Gesellschaft in Familiengeschichten von heute?
T1  - How much society is in today’s family stories?
T2  - Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License Internationale Zeitschrift für Kulturkomparatistik Bd. 9 (2022): Spiegel der Gesellschaft von heute? Familien in der Schweizer Literatur. Les familles dans la littérature suisse: miroir de la société actuelle?
N2  - This article deals with a selection of contemporary texts by Swiss authors that address the theme of the family in various ways. The question put forward is whether such literary representations still represent today’s families or whether they miss the mark. The variety of literary forms and the spectrum of perspectives in this selection proved far more diverse than expected. Nevertheless, auto-fictional narration is still fundamental, whereby retrospectives of a life lived are conveyed from within the narrator’s own family circle. The discourse of memory continues to dominate substantial parts of the narrative, and a preoccupation with father-son and mother-daughter relations within family constellations still remains relevant. However, humour and irony are also important as a means of creating distance at moments where reality verges on the absurd and the narrator’s own family is shown in a comic light, or where the terrain is delicate, as for example when the action takes place in a nursing home.
KW  - family
KW  - old age
KW  - psychological trauma
KW  - relations
KW  - death
Y1  - 2022
UR  - https://ubt.opus.hbz-nrw.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/2714
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hbz:385-1-27144
SP  - 79
EP  - 99
ER  -