Abstract
Although public discourse on the perceived ‘refugee crisis’ has often been framed in terms of ‘problematic foreign masculinity’ (Paul Scheibelhofer), there is relatively little research on the nexus of migration and masculinity. In contrast, literary texts have long engaged with gendered experiences of migration. This article analyses the humorous yet hard-hitting intersectional critique of Austrian society in Martin Horváth's debut novel. Focal points are its narratorial stance, its protagonist's ‘promiscuous’ multilingualism and its critique of colonially structured gender identities but also, ultimately, its reiteration of patriarchal masculinity as a repetition of (white, European) strategies of control.
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