nam 22 uu 4500 duepublico_mods_00000881 10.25926/ff43-vn97 doi duepublico_mods_00000881 ger DE-601 rda eng 800 sdnb Heynders, Odile Author aut (DE-588)172137217 Investigative Writing. Family Narrative in/with History Heynders, Odile text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier In A History of the Grandparents I Never Had Ivan Jablonka examines the narrative of his grandparents and reflects on the possibilities and limits of historical knowledge. Two years later, in History is a Contemporary Literature, he continues his thinking on ‘investigative writing’ and endorses ‘the fictions of method’ inviting his readers to think about writing as an amalgam of literature, sociology and history in which a reflection is at stake on how truth is not something that is represented but is created in writing. This article explores investigative writing as a methodological concept while reading and juxtaposing family narratives of Ivan Jablonka and Annie Ernaux as historical, sociological and literary perspectives on reality culminating in a transpersonal positioning in time and place. Both the historian and the literary author (if these qualifications are still relevant today) by telling their family narrative pursue an understanding of collective history, time, and individual consciousness, while connecting epistemological and ontological dimensions of literature. article Fakultät für Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaften DIEGESIS Jg. 15 (2026) H. 1 host institution his 15:1<36 Fakultät für Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaften, DIEGESIS Diegesis 2195-2116 duepublico_mods_00000079 https://elpub.bib.uni-wuppertal.de/receive/duepublico_mods_00000881 object in context https://elpub.bib.uni-wuppertal.de/servlets/MCRFileNodeServlet/duepublico_derivate_00001136/dej26150103.pdf raw object https://elpub.bib.uni-wuppertal.de/rsc/thumbnail/duepublico_mods_00000881.png preview https://elpub.bib.uni-wuppertal.de/receive/duepublico_mods_00000881 uri