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

✍ Scribed by Josef Stuart Len Cagle (editor); Thomas Herold (editor); Gabriele Maier (editor)

Publisher: De Gruyter
Year: 2023
Tongue: English
Leaves: 258
Series: Interdisciplinary German Cultural Studies; 34
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

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

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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