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Konversionserzählungen. Vergangenheit und Gegenwart literarisch-politischer Überläufergeschichten
Amlinger, Carolin; Gess, Nicola; Liese, Lea (2023) , S. 6-12
Retroverser Fortschritt. Rückkehr, Konversion und sozialer Wandel
Amlinger, Carolin (2023) , S. 64-84
Beginning with the trend toward first-person narrative perspectives in contemporary literature, this article examines the ways in which crisis-ridden presences are narrated in narratives of return. The focus is on how conversion narratives articulate a collectively shared experience of social change. Autosociobiographical novels open with a threshold narrative that follows the logic and structure of classic conversion narratives. The tripartite narrative structure of autobiographical conversion narratives, in which a turning point separates the life course into a wrong life before conversion and a right one after conversion, is used in the novels as a time-diagnostic tool to render a diffuse social threshold state representable.