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Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Geistesgeschichte, 2021-01, Vol.95 (2), p.163-197
Ort / Verlag
Stuttgart: Springer Nature B.V
Erscheinungsjahr
2021
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Alma/SFX Local Collection
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Oliver is considered one of the main representatives of German-language writers with a migration background. Thus, research has hitherto focused on topics related to so-called »migrant literature«, such as the xenophobic violence against minorities, or the feasibility of a hybrid identity or a transcultural »third space«. This essay differs from these content-based readings in that it foregrounds Oliver’s innovative poetics. Apart from Celan, Mayröcker, and Domin, the richest inspiration for Oliver’s poetics is Lorca, above all Lorca’s works Romancero gitano and Poema del cante jondo, and his two extensive lectures on »Duende«, the creative spirit that, according to Lorca, animates the performance of flamenco. Transcending Lorca, in his Ballad of Duende, Oliver embarks on a quest for a Duende which blends the »Andalusian« and the »German«, relying on poetic means, including a variety of prosodic, metaphoric, and rhetoric modes of expression. Furthermore, his striking use of neologism, syllabification, punctuation, and syntax engenders an associative expansion of meaning. Oliver thereby creates a language that is fundamentally ambiguous. His Duende empowers a kind of performative speaking that allows for multiple readings – roughly, from myth to Marx – and that is, importantly, an expression of resistance.