Heimat, Space, Narrative: Toward a Transnational Approach to Flight and Expulsion (Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture)
Language: English
Published by Camden House, 2014
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Hardcover, xi + 211 pages, NOT ex-library. Interior is clean and bright throughout, with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, firmly bound. Boards show short creases to upper spine. Issued without a dust jacket. -- Contents: Introduction: Geocritical Approaches to Place-Bound Belonging; Part I: Reassessing the Study of Heimat, Space, and Postwar Expulsion -- 1: Heimat and the Spatial Turn 2: Narrative and Space 3: Flight and Expulsion; Part II: Horst Bienek's Novels on Upper Silesia (1975-82) -- Introduction: Contextualizing Flight and Expulsion in Bienek's Upper Silesia 4: Writing, Attachment to Place, and Jewish Expulsion in Bienek's Tetralogy 5: Spatial Practices in Bienek's Tetralogy; Part III: Contemporary Novels -- Introduction: Remembering Lost Places of Belonging, Imagining New Ones 6: Writing (beyond) Memories of Loss: Novels by Christoph Hein, Reinhard Jirgl, Kathrin Schmidt, and Tanja Diickers 7: New Approaches to Flight and Expulsion: Border Regions in Novels by Sabrina Janesch and Olga Tokarczuk; Conclusion: "Lived Spaces" in Literary Narratives; Filmography; Works Cited; Index -- At the end of the Second World War, millions of Germans and Poles fled or were expelled from the border regions of what had been their countries. This monograph examines how, in Cold War and post-Cold War Europe since the 1970s, writers have responded to memories or postmemories of this traumatic displacement. Friederike Eigler engages with important currents in scholarship -- on "Heimat," the much-debated German concept of "homeland"; on the spatial turn in literary studies; and on German-Polish relations -- arguing for a transnational approach to the legacies of flight and expulsion and for a spatial approach to Heimat. She explores notions of belonging in selected postwar and contemporary German novels, with a comparative look at a Polish novel, Olga Tokarczuk's House of Day, House of Night (1998). Eigler finds dynamic manifestations of place in Tokarczuk's novel, in Horst Bienek's 1972-82 Gleiwitz tetralogy about the historical border region of Upper Silesia, and in contemporary novels by Reinhard Jirgl, Christoph Hein, Kathrin Schmidt, Tanja Dückers, Olaf Müller, and Sabrina Janesch. In a decisive departure from earlier approaches, Eigler explores how these novels foster an awareness of the regions' multiethnic and multinational histories, unsettling traditional notions of Heimat without altogether abandoning place-based notions of belonging. Friederike Eigler is Professor of German at Georgetown University.…
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- Heimat, Space, Narrative: Toward a Transnational Approach to Flight and Expulsion (Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture)
- Author
- Eigler, Friederike
- Publisher
- Camden House
- Publication year
- 2014
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1571139036
- ISBN 13
- 9781571139030
- Edition
- 1st Edition
Friederike Eigler is Professor of German at Georgetown University.
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Against the background of a continent's transition that continues to hang in the balance, Eigler's transitional study . . . does well to draw our attention to European literature's contributions to imagining place and belonging anew. SYMPOSIUM
This elegant book provides useful historical and political background to help the literary scholar find a path to understanding. . . . Highly recommended. CHOICE
Question[s] assumptions . . . and present[s] a much more nuanced picture. . . . [T]horoughly recommended. And, true to the standards set by Camden House as perhaps the leading publisher of innovative scholarship on modern German culture, [the book] is beautifully produced. JOURNAL OF EUROPEAN STUDIES [Joachim Whaley]
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