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In this chapter, Ursa explores multiple forms of displacement in Herta Muller’s prose. Identified as crucial ways of remediating the author’s autobiography and postmemory, linguistic estrangement, autobiographical mediation, and non-human displacement are central to the analysis. Based on two best-known novels by Muller, The Land of Green Plums and The Hunger Angel, the chapter shows how meaning is transferred throughout the narrative between speech, material objects, humanness, and animality. Focusing on the individual-collective interplay and on the human–non-human ambivalence, and dwelling on theoretical input from memory and postmemory studies, Ursa contends that the writer uses identity displacement to mediate and remediate different places of memory, where the non-human takes part in being human.

The paper analiyzes the problem of cultural contact within the comparative framework of the existing dialectic between the universal and the national. The idea of universal invariants, manifesting themselves in the absence of direct influence or dependence is explored mainly in the work of two comparatists of Romanian origin. V članku avtorica analizira vprašanje kulturnih stikov v primerjalnem okviru obstoječe dialektike med univerzalnim in nacionalnim. Idejo univerzalnih invariant, ki se kažejo v odsotnosti neposrednega vpliva ali odvisnosti, preučuje predvsem na podlagi del dveh romunskih komparativistov.