Heimat and Migration : : Reimagining the Regional and the Global in the Twenty-First Century / / ed. by Josef Stuart Len Cagle, Thomas Herold, Gabriele Maier.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2023 Part 1
• HerausgeberIn: Cagle, Josef Stuart Len,; Herold, Thomas,; Maier, Gabriele,
• MitwirkendeR: Cagle, Len,; Celik, Nursan,; Herold, Thomas,; Klüppel, Joscha,; Maier, Gabriele,; Nell, Werner,; Peabody, Seth,; Plumly, Vanessa D.,; Slattery, John,; Stehle, Maria,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: Interdisciplinary German Cultural Studies , 34
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (258 p.)

Discourses of Heimat and of migration both negotiate questions of identity, belonging, and integration; moreover, despite the reemergence of right-wing, racist, and exclusionary uses of the term Heimat, there are in fact more recent German-language cultural texts that problematize and challenge a view of Heimat as a community that excludes the Other than there are promulgating it. This volume addresses the parallel proliferation of discourses of Heimat and of migration in contemporary German-language culture and demonstrates that the entanglement of migration and Heimat can be productive: it can help us to reframe what it means to have a home, to lose one, find one, or belong to one.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Part 1 Heimat – History and Present -- Heimat Contested? Promises and Threats of a German Discourse Between Battlefield and Sacred Canopy -- Politics, Society, Literature: Heimat Discourses and Rural Novels by Bastian Asdonk and Mariana Leky -- Part 2 Rural Spaces -- Beyond Brooks, Hills, and Dales: Dörte Hansen’s Reconceptualization of Heimat in Mittagsstunde (2018) -- Herkunft and Heimat: Memory and Place in Uncanny Rural Spaces -- Part 3 Heimat and Migration -- Saša Stanišić’s Novels: Making Sense of Heimat and Migration? -- Von Beet zu Beet, von Baum zu Baum: Exile, Diaspora, and Transnationality in Ronya Othmann’s Die Sommer -- Migration and an Intersubjective Home in Jenny Erpenbeck’s Gehen, ging, gegangen -- Part 4 Heimat and the Other -- Black German Orientational Heimat Architextures in Noah Sow’s Die Schwarze Madonna: Afrodeutscher Heimatkrimi (2019) -- Heimat for One? Spaces of Community and Disability in Wolfgang Herrndorf’s Arbeit und Struktur and Tschick -- Searching for Home in Fatih Akin’s Urban Heimatfilme -- Contributors -- Index