Emotional Discourse in the Novel „Bloody Book” by Kim L’horizon

Abstract

Drawing on the contemporary literary discourse in German-speaking regions, which has recently begun to actively engage with issues of gender and queer literature, this study seeks to identify and analyze the emotional discourse conveyed through the letters of the grandmother in the autofictional novel Bloody Book by Kim de L’Horizon, a non-binary author. The first part of this study involves an analysis of the productive, contextual, and linguistic dimensions of the emotional discourse, while the second part employs qualitative research methods to investigate the relationship between the emotional world depicted in the literary text and that of the recipients. The study aims to explore the (im)possibilities of self-awareness and self-stabilization for individuals who identify as „different” from others, and advocates for their social acceptance.