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Dualism as Provocation: Systemic Challenge Scenarios and Individual Decision-Making Freedoms in the Textual Worlds of Herta Müller
Abstract
The present article explores a significant connection between the systemic potential for irritation, individual courses of action, decision-making freedoms, and the transformation/ change triggered by choices using the example of Herta Müller’s textual worlds. Systemically generated irritations are regarded as reference points for individual resolutions and behaviors, as they do not leave the affected parties indifferent and compel reactions. Or in other words, in this case, using dualism as provocation means that the system and the individual, collectivity and individuality, friends and foes, or the familiar and the foreign are not indifferent to each other. This confrontation can indeed lead to a more or less conforming coexistence, or – as soon as the fronts harden – invoke a decisive antagonism on the stage.
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Herta Müller, binary oppositions, system, individual, autocracy, liberal democracyDetails
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