Trauma, Postmemory, and Empathy: The Migrant Crisis and the German Past in Jenny Erpenbeck’s Gehen, ging, gegangen [Go, Went, Gone]

The novel Gehen, ging, gegangen [Go, Went, Gone] by the celebrated German writer Jenny Erpenbeck was published at the height of the European refugee crisis. The novel tells the tale of Richard, a retired Berlin classics professor, who becomes intrigued by the Oranienplatz refugee protest camp. He in...

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Main Author: Brangwen Stone
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2017-11-01
Series:Humanities
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/6/4/88