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Vom Übergang als Schutz gegen den Übergriff

Zeitschrift für interkulturelle Germanistik

Abstract

The article discusses how Wilhelm Raabe's narrative Prinzessin Fisch relates different types of transitions to each other and thus creates a network of implications that resists the logic of violence which is inscribed into the everyday normality German Society in a small city in the German Harz mountains in a transitional process of modernization. A close reading reveals that the father obviously has abused his children. Different types of textual strategies creating transitional moments are shown to be aiming at unmasking this highly illegitimate, tabooed bodily border-crossing, that could not be explicitly mentioned by that time. In addition, the cultural bias first suggested by the text appears to be a wrong track: Not the ‹foreign' migrants and returnees from the US and Mexico are the malicious ones, but the patterns of violence are located within the German bourgeois milieu, being perpetuated all over the world as part of transborder early Globalization. Literary transitions and intertextuality appear as resistance moments in this abysmal view on the German society at the end of the 19 th century.

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