Journal article

Publication year: 2021

Pages: 387-410

Journal: Poetica: Studies in Literature und Language

Volume number: 52

Issue number: 3-4

ISSN: 0303-4178

eISSN: 2589-0530

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.30965/25890530-05201016

Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers

Abstract: 
Multidirectional Assemblage: Boris Khersonskii's Family Archive Boris Khersonskii's most acclaimed and translated volume of poetry Semeinyi arkhiv [Family Archive] (2003/2006) consists of semi-fictional miniatures narrating the sufferings of the members of a Southwest-Ukrainian Jewish Family in the short 20th century. The speaker's laconic tone invites less of a trauma-studies approach to the Stalinist Great Terror and the Shoah than a media-sensitive update of the formalist focus on material devices and the determination of meaning from below. This contribution proposes to read Family Archive as an assemblage of imagined material media (photographs, letters, auction objects) which trace multidirectional vectors of commemoration. It proposes the notion of directionality for resolving the undecidability of referential and a-referential readings of quasi-documentary poetry.

Harvard Citation style: Uffelmann, D. (2021) Multidirektionale Assemblage. Boris Chersonskijs Familienarchiv, Poetica: Zeitschrift für Literatur und Sprache, 52(3-4), pp. 387-410. https://doi.org/10.30965/25890530-05201016

APA Citation style: Uffelmann, D. (2021). Multidirektionale Assemblage. Boris Chersonskijs Familienarchiv. Poetica: Zeitschrift für Literatur und Sprache. 52(3-4), 387-410. https://doi.org/10.30965/25890530-05201016