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GERMANIC REVIEW
Volume 98, Issue 4, Pages 396-413Publisher
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/00168890.2023.2255915
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Contemporary German poetry; Jose FA Oliver; migration; memory; Paul Celan; Shoah
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This article explores the significance of Paul Celan in the works of Jose F.A. Oliver, who represents Oliver's development as a self-reflexive poet. Oliver examines the possibilities of contemporary poetry and memory within the poem itself, while also integrating various places and languages.
Paul Celan is a central figure in the work of Jose F.A. Oliver, a multilingual poet who emerged from the context of the so-called migration literature. This article shows the extent to which Celan stands for Oliver's development into a self-reflexive poet who examines the possibilities of contemporary poetry and memory within the poem itself. For Oliver, the poem results from a process of condensation, a reflective and inward movement. At the same time, however, his extensive poetry integrates various places and languages. Celan's role within this field of tension-in fernlautmetz (2000) and fahrtenschreiber (2010), for instance-exceeds that of an intertextual reference. This idiosyncratic reception goes far beyond quotation and points back to an openness inherent in Celan's work itself. The extent to which historical experience and memory are transferable in the poem is an issue that Oliver also tackles on a meta-lyrical level. 1
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