Heimat and Migration : : Reimagining the Regional and the Global in the Twenty-First Century /

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

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 vi...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (258 p.)
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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

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