»Weder einen Platz noch eine Feuerstelle haben«: Traurige Helden in der Migrationsliteratur von Franco Biondi

Summary

In the texts of F. Biondi there is stated in the center, aside of the trial of a positive semantic termination of the concept of the stranger as a mourning hero, the unavoidable return into the home country. Also a theme in these texts are the quite everyday racism of the society and the split-up identity of the Migrants. In the ›Irreconcilables‹ of F. Biondi the looking after a lost identity of the mourning hero has not just led to a shifting of himself, but also to a change. The same can be said of Biondi’s language of literature (which is not his maternal language) and shows an aura of the being-different; the mourning hero in the ›Irreconcilables‹ at least accepts his status as everlasting-stranger, his exilated body who can just inhabit the foreign, finally still finds an satisfactory explanation for its nomad-kinded kind of living. The here presented migrant-authors deliver the even still unsecured but yet only possible image of a migrant as a mourning hero, who’s place is a kind of ›third space‹ between languages and cultures of the origin country and the host country.