„A já jsem svou planetou a svým vlastním světlem.“ Třetí prostor na příkladu hybridních postav a vícejazyčnosti v díle Michaela Stavariče
Renata Cornejo, Filozofická fakulta Univerzity Jana Evangelisty Purkyně v Ústí nad
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Recenzovaný článek
s. 116–136 (obrazová příloha s. 196)
Licence CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
DOI: https://doi.org/10.63013/la.2024.05
“I am my own planet and my own source of light.” The Third Space in the Hybrid Figures and Multilingualism in the Work of Michael Stavarič
Abstract:
This study investigates the concept of the Third Space in the work of the Austrian author of Czech origin Michael Stavarič and show how he is situated not just on the border of the Czech and German-language literary scenes as a (cultural) translator, but that this position is especially obvious in his early literary output. His novels stillborn (2006) and Terminifera (2007) portray the author’s inner conflicts and traumatizing experiences with losing his culture and language in the form of hybrid characters oscillating between split identities, which in Terminifera are of an androgynous nature. This disunity stigmatizes both protagonists, determining their lives and their relationships to their surroundings, turning them into “monsters” and outsiders balancing between their inner and outer worlds, between the real world and their own fantasy worlds, between normality and abnormality. In his experimental work Nkaah (2008), the author’s childhood experience of having migrated is projected both as a subject and at the level of his language through explicit and implicit multilingualism. The hybrid identity of his own self becomes an object of research (the subject of an experiment on a living object) and finds its equivalent not just in the text’s articulation and visual format, but also at the level of its language, when the narrator creates his own artificial language and the word “blaze”, printed in red, becomes the leitmotif, the red line running through the whole work and, last but not least, being projected visually onto the book’s very cover.
Klíčová slova:
Michael Stavarič; rakouská literatura; třetí prostor; hybridita; vícejazyčnost; androgynie
Keywords:
Michael Stavarič; Austrian literature; Third Space; hybridity; multilingualism; androgyny
Citace:
Cornejo, Renata: „A já jsem svou planetou a svým vlastním světlem.“ Třetí prostor na příkladu hybridních postav a vícejazyčnosti v díle Michaela Stavariče. Literární archiv 56, Třetí prostor české literatury, 2024. Ed. Marek Nekula, s. 116–136; https://doi.org/10.63013/la.2024.05.