'Heimat' : : At the Intersection of Memory and Space / / ed. by Friederike Eigler, Jens Kugele.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• MitwirkendeR: Assmann, Aleida,; Blickle, Peter,; Boa, Elizabeth,; Bonner, Withold,; Ecker, Gisela,; Eigler, Friederike,; Fuchs, Anne,; Herrmann, Mareike,; Kauders, Anthony D.,; Kugele, Jens,; Mennel, Barbara,; Schneider, Helmut J.,; Shafi, Monika,; Sieg, Christian,; Tuan, Yi-Fu,
• HerausgeberIn: Eigler, Friederike,; Kugele, Jens,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2012]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Media and Cultural Memory / Medien und kulturelle Erinnerung , 14
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (268 p.)

The concept of Heimat with its seemingly pre- or anti-modern connotations of rootedness in a place of origin is central to a critical understanding of German history and culture. Over the course of the past fifteen years, scholars across a range of disciplines have found new ways to examine the changing notions of Heimat – its multifaceted cultural, literary, and visual history, its gendered connotations, and its national and ideological appropriations. This anthology is the first to examine cultural manifestations of Heimat by giving special consideration to issues of memory and space. The contributions to this volume challenge static notions of place often associated with Heimat. Instead, they explore the social and cultural production of places of belonging as they emerge in literary and visual narratives ranging from 1800 to 2000 and beyond. Although the anthology includes historical perspectives on Heimat, its overall objective is not to trace its cultural or literary history, but to place this complex term into new conceptual contexts. Drawing attention to manifestations of Heimat within German literary and cultural studies provides a rich ground for exploring the transformation of locality in trans/national contexts.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Table of Contents -- Introduction: Heimat at the Intersection of Memory and Space -- SECTION I. Genealogies of Heimat: Poetics – Imagination – Gender -- Erzählte Heimat und Heimatlichkeit des Erzählens -- Some Versions of Heimat -- Gender, Space, and Heimat -- SECTION II. Urban Heimat : City-Spaces – History – Post/Modernity -- Kampf um die Stadt als Identitätsverankerung und Geschichtsspeicher -- Heimat Berlin -- The Architecture of Heimat in the Mise-en-Scène of Memory -- SECTION III. Remembering Heimat : Memory Sites – Taboos – Ghosts -- Ostalgie, Local Identity, and the Quest for Heimat in the Global Age -- „Mein Problem ist das Kontinuum“ -- Geisterlandschaften -- SECTION IV. Challenging Heimat : Language – Culture – Objects -- Heimat, Modernity, and the Archive -- The Emotional Geography of a Lost Space -- Prozesse der „Beheimatung“ -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index