TY  - JOUR
A1  - Navratil, Michael
T1  - Sprach‑ und Weltalternativen
BT  - Mehrsprachigkeit als Ideologiekritik in kontrafaktischen Werken von Quentin Tarantino und Christian Kracht
JF  - Interlitteraria : Tartu Ülikooli Maailmakirjanduse Õppetooli ja Eesti Võrdleva Kirjandusteaduse Assotsiatsiooni aastakiri
N2  - Multilingualism and the alternate history genre have something in common: both phenomena are based on the construction of alternatives, in the case of multilingualism on the alternatives between different languages and communication systems, and in the case of the alternate history genre on the alternatives between real-world facts and the variation thereof within fictional worlds. This article investigates the interconnections between these two forms of thinking in alternatives by looking specifically at Quentin Tarantino's counterfactual war film Inglourious Basterds (2009) and Christian Kracht's alternate history novel Ich werde hier sein im Sonnenschein und im Schatten (2008). I argue that the consideration of language alternatives forms part of the meta-reflection of the alternate history genre in these works while at the same time opening up a political perspective: in Tarantino's film and Kracht's novel, multilingualism serves as a means for the critique of ideology by rendering palpable the political threats of a worldview based on clear-cut alternatives. In the article's final section, I plead for the establishment of stronger links between the research on literary multilingualism and the theory of fiction.
KW  - multilingualism
KW  - counterfactual fiction
KW  - alternate history
KW  - political
KW  - writing
KW  - theory of fiction
KW  - German studies
KW  - film studies
KW  - Quentin
KW  - Tarantino
KW  - Christian Kracht
Y1  - 2020
U6  - https://doi.org/10.12697/IL.2020.25.2.20
SN  - 1406-0701
SN  - 2228-4729
VL  - 25
IS  - 2
SP  - 522
EP  - 539
PB  - Tartu Ülikooli Kirjastus
CY  - Tartu
ER  -