Vergessen, was Eltern sind: Relekture und literaturgeschichtliche Neusituierung der angeblichen Vaterliteratur

Text in German. his study takes a critical look at the phenomenon of so-called father literature. Many literary scholars read Criticism of the father as the symbolic representative of power and law from the thoroughly successful autobiographical father’s books , most of which appeared in the 1970s. The emergence of this supposedly new genre is commonly seen as a by-product of the so-called new subjectivity. The question of the extent to which such terms and constructs are durable and compatible is dealt with centrally in the work. The concept of a father’s literature on the basis of detailed text analyzes and a critical review of previous research on the topic is fundamentally called into question.