The Ambivalent Didacticism of Jenny Erpenbeck’s Gehen, Ging, Gegangen
The Ambivalent Didacticism of Jenny Erpenbeck’s Gehen, Ging, Gegangen
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珍妮·埃尔彭贝克 (Jenny Erpenbeck) 的《Gehen、Ging、Gegangen》中矛盾的说教主义
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2019
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Sophie Salvo
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Sophie Salvo
Jenny Erpenbeck’s 2015 Gehen, ging, gegangen has largely been received as a novel meant to educate the German public about the current “refugee crisis” in Europe. This article argues that Erpenbeck’s text has a more complicated relationship to its own didactic potential. By situating Gehen, ging, gegangen within the history of didactic narrative as a genre, the article demonstrates how Erpenbeck’s novel borrows from typical didactic conventions, yet also questions the ability of literature to facilitate the political education of its readers.