Heimat and Migration
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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.
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Gabriele Maier , Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA.
Content
- Intro
- 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
- Sasa Stanisic'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
