“REBELL/IN/EN (NICHT NUR) DES WORTES“ – MIGRATION SUPPORTED LITERARY TAKE OFFS TO POSTNATIONAL OUTLINES OF AUSTRIA. FROM HADZIBEGANOVIC TO INSAYIF AND MAANI

Abstract

In the codicil to her prize speech on the occasion of the first award ceremony (1997) for Schreiben zwischen den Kulturen Alma Hadzibeganovic, born in the bosno-croatian crossborder city of Brčko, presented a quite idiosyncratic and at the same time explanatory alphabet. The letter ‚R’ hereby emphasized a specific rebellious character of most of her same aged authors coming from migration backgrounds. Looking back on twenty years of literary and cultural production we probably may assert that selfpositionings as expressed by Hadzibeganovic in the meantime have contributed to differentiate at one hand literary techniques of authors coming from other backgrounds and to establish at the other hand connexions and intersections with the specific Austrian tradition of critical, ironical and experimental approaches in writing and reflecting words and worlds.