Format:
1 Online-Ressource (227 Seiten)
ISBN:
9783035306651
Series Statement:
Studies in modern German and Austrian literature volume 2
Content:
What became of ethnic Germans in Eastern Europe during the Second World War? In recent years, their suffering, flight and expulsion during and after the war has attracted increasing critical attention. A wave of literary fiction has accompanied this trend, contributing to, and sometimes triggering, heated debate in the media and German-speaking society more widely. Often said to have broken a ‘taboo’, these postunification novels are in fact only the latest in a long history of literary representations of flight and expulsion in German writing. This book offers the first comprehensive account in English of ‘expulsion literature’ in West Germany from the early 1950s to present-day Germany, providing detailed readings of both canonical and lesser known texts and carefully placing the novels in their broader literary and historical context. The book demonstrates that these literary representations have often been viewed too narrowly and offers an alternative and, arguably, more positive perspective on the representation of flight and expulsion over six decades in German literature
Content:
«In sum, Heimat, Loss and Identity provides an assessment of literature on flight and expulsion (and on the long-term effects of these events) that is both comprehensiveand nuanced. Its only drawback—the scant attention to the situation in East Germany—is more than remedied by Niven’s book.»(Friederike Eigler, Monatshefte 3/2016)
Content:
Contents: Victims of Fate: The Representation of Flight and Expulsion in Novels of the Early Postwar Period – ‘A Clear Counter-Discourse’: Expulsion Novels during the Politicized 1970s and 1980s – The Volte-face in the Reception of Walter Kempowski: Shifting Attitudes towards (Representations of ) German Wartime Suffering – An Era of ‘Normalization’? Representations of Flight and Expulsion in Postunification Germany
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783034317412
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Berger, Karina, 1977 - Heimat, loss and identity Oxford : Peter Lang, 2015 ISBN 9783034317412
Additional Edition:
ISBN 3034317417
Language:
English
Subjects:
German Studies
Keywords:
Deutsch
;
Roman
;
Zweiter Weltkrieg
;
Flucht
;
Vertreibung
;
Geschichte 1948-2006
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Deutsch
;
Literatur
;
Zweiter Weltkrieg
;
Flucht
;
Vertreibung
DOI:
10.3726/978-3-0353-0665-1
URL:
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Author information:
Berger, Karina 1977-
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