Constitution of Subject and Identity in Anna Baar’s Novel Als ob sie träumend gingen

Sažetak

The article focuses on the subject- and identity constitutions in the novel Als ob sie träumend gingen by Anna Baar within a discourse of literary and cultural studies and tries to point out the alienation phenomena in the text. The novel is a narrative text that alienates historicity, especially the war scenarios in Mediterranean region, and represents them as an expression of memories. The self-knowledge of the protagonist is based on an identity-alterity dynamic that leads to a questioning of the interplay of self and other. Foreignness is charac terized by an increasing loss of love, trust, and humaneness. Dalmatia as experiential space correlates with existential necessity of literary figures and their dissociation from the cultural other. The distanced narrative instance refers to social exclusion of the protagonist and his search for orientation in foreign everyday life.