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This article offers a literary analysis of the historical dimension of Kirsten Boie’s young adult literary work Dunkelnacht (2021). The article first gives a critical assessment of the mostly consensual theories of docufictional narration and historiographical metafiction, then as a second step illustrates the possibility of the aesthetic hybridization of factual and fictional elements for the construction of a contingent narrative world. Following this, the article focuses on the implemented narrative strategies that augment the impression of the construct character of docufiction. The following questions guide the intended analysis using the close reading method: How are historical aspects treated on the level of histoire in Kirsten Boie’s work Dunkelnacht (2021)? How is the historical context illuminated through the representation of the past and the mediation of memory components and aestheticized at the level of discours? What can the art of language and rhetorical figures achieve for the evocation and deconstruction of history (e.g., hybridizations of novelty and reference to facts)? How does the interweaving of content and narratological aspects of factuality and fictionality and of approaching and distancing from reality take place? How are narrative strategies such as intertextual and multi-perspective narration (especially the complexity of contrasting perspectives of the same historical events) used? The focalization is assumed to be the crucial strategy of docufictional narration in Kirsten Boie’s novel Dunkelnacht (2021). Therefore, the analysis considers such levels of focalization as language, ideology, time, space, and perception/introspection.

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