Contemporary Ukrainian writers as an ‘avant-garde’ of exile in the German literary field? Katja Petrowskaja and Kateryna Mishchenko
Journal: Oxford German Studies
Year: 2023

In a recent podcast Kateryna Mishchenko asked whether she, as a Ukrainian author, has the right to participate in German discourses, and whether she can do so through the German language.This refers both to the public debate on the 'Krieg in Europa', following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and, inextricably linked to it, memory discourses on the Holocaust and World War II.This article discusses Mishchenko's perspective on the war in Europe in literary and non-literary texts in comparison to that