Abstract
The paper presents an analysis of the novel Memoirs of a Polar Bear (Etüden im Schnee, 2014) by Japanese-German author Yōko Tawada (多和田葉子) in light of the theories of migration literature and ecocriticism. The migration literature is in the broadest sense literature about migration, while ecocriticism studies the representations of nature and ecological issues in literature and art, including the study of the literary human-nonhuman animal depictions. The goal of the paper is to provide insight into the existing research of the novel, as well as to emphasize the necessity of an interdisciplinary approach to the interpretation which would take into account the animal experience of the migration phenomenon in order to examine the traditional marginalization of the animal Other, the contemporary efforts to perceive the perspective of a nonhuman being and the constant process of movement: as part of the circus, as part of a particular animal species and as an everyday part of life in our Eurocentric and anthropocentric world.
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