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

Published by De Gruyter 2023

Heimat and Migration

Reimagining the Regional and the Global in the Twenty-First Century

Edited by: Josef Stuart Len Cagle , Thomas Herold and Gabriele Maier

Volume 34 in the series Interdisciplinary German Cultural Studies

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110733150

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About this book

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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Len Cagle, Lycoming College, Williamsport, PA; Thomas Herold, Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ
Gabriele Maier, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Introduction Len Cagle, Thomas Herold and Gabriele Maier Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part 1 Heimat – History and Present
Heimat Contested? Promises and Threats of a German Discourse Between Battlefield and Sacred Canopy Werner Nell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
Politics, Society, Literature: Heimat Discourses and Rural Novels by Bastian Asdonk and Mariana Leky Thomas Herold Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
Part 2 Rural Spaces
Beyond Brooks, Hills, and Dales: Dörte Hansen’s Reconceptualization of Heimat in Mittagsstunde (2018) Gabriele Maier Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	69
Herkunft and Heimat: Memory and Place in Uncanny Rural Spaces Maria Stehle Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	87
Part 3 Heimat and Migration
Saša Stanišić’s Novels: Making Sense of Heimat and Migration? Joscha Klüppel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	107
Von Beet zu Beet, von Baum zu Baum: Exile, Diaspora, and Transnationality in Ronya Othmann’s Die Sommer Nursan Celik Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	141
Migration and an Intersubjective Home in Jenny Erpenbeck’s Gehen, ging, gegangen John Slattery Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	163
Part 4 Heimat and the Other
Black German Orientational Heimat Architextures in Noah Sow’s Die Schwarze Madonna: Afrodeutscher Heimatkrimi (2019) Vanessa D. Plumly Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	183
Heimat for One? Spaces of Community and Disability in Wolfgang Herrndorf’s Arbeit und Struktur and Tschick Seth Peabody Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	203
Searching for Home in Fatih Akin’s Urban Heimatfilme Len Cagle Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	227
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	249
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	251

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Scholars of German Studies, European studies, cultural studies, film studies, political science, history and philosophy
Pages
- Main content: 258
Keywords: Germany; identity; rurality; transnationality; community

eBook

Published: February 20, 2023
ISBN: 9783110733150

Hardcover

Published: February 20, 2023
ISBN: 9783110738155