'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 chan...

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