Published: 2023-06-27

Crossing Borders – Between Gender, Culture and Identity: Sasha Marianna Salzmann’s debut novel Außer sich (2017)

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Abstract

With her debut novel Außer sich (2017), Sasha Marianna Salzmann undertakes a journey through the history of the last hundred years and explores the themes of flight, migration, gender, the search for identity, and generational trauma through four generations. The plot centers on Alissa, called Ali, a woman in her mid-20s, who travels to Istanbul driven by the search for her twin brother Anton. Boundaries and their transgressions are at the heart of the novel. Gender boundaries are subverted in the form of transgender characters, geographical boundaries are transgressed through changes of place and time. Cultural and
linguistic boundaries are concomitants of memory work that shifts in space and time. The article will focus on three limit-concepts essential to the novel: Geographical boundaries, temporal boundaries, and gender boundaries.

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Lamberti, T. (2023). Crossing Borders – Between Gender, Culture and Identity: Sasha Marianna Salzmann’s debut novel Außer sich (2017). Wortfolge. Szyk Słów, (7), 1–20. https://doi.org/10.31261/WSS.2023.07.01

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No. 7 (2023)
Published: 2023-12-18


eISSN: 2544-4093
Ikona DOI 10.321261/WSS

Publisher
Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego | University of Silesia Press

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