Myth, Memory, Testimony, Jewishness in Grete Weil’s Meine Schwester Antigone

The Antigone myth is one of the recurrent motifs of resistance in European culture. Grete Weil’s novelMeine Schwester Antigone(Antigone, My Sister, 1980), even though – and precisely because – it focuses on a narrator who did not resist, and is set in a narrative present (West Germany around 1980) t...

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1. Verfasser:	Moray McGowan
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Zusammenfassung:	The Antigone myth is one of the recurrent motifs of resistance in European culture. Grete Weil’s novelMeine Schwester Antigone(Antigone, My Sister, 1980), even though – and precisely because – it focuses on a narrator who did not resist, and is set in a narrative present (West Germany around 1980) temporarily removed from the Nazi period, addresses the theme in relation to the agonies of memory, the problematics of testimony, and the temptation to self-deception inherent in ‘Jewish’ victim identity. Comparison with Lea Fleischmann’s autobiographicalDies ist nicht mein Land(This Is Not My Country), also 1980, helps position