Literarized Concept of Migration and Balkan Mimicry as a European Challenge for Comparative Literature

This paper compares common narrative and writing strategies in Marica Bodrozic's German novel Sterne erben, Sterne farben. Meine Ankunft in Wortern von (2007) and Gazment Kaplani's greek novel mu epsilon lambda epsilon nu epsilon E upsilon rho omega pi eta (2010) (They Call Me Europe). My thesis is that the perception of the narrative theme of modern migration creates common narrative and writing strategies leading to a 'migratory memory of European literature'. On the level of genre the paper focuses properly on the autobiographical consistency of the texts, while on the level of the content on the significance of modern migration, the reminiscences of Communism in former Serbia and Albania and finally the Balkan and Balkanism as literary construction.