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Format: 1 online resource (276p.)

ISBN: 9783110292060

Series Statement: Media and Cultural Memory / Medien und kulturelle Erinnerung ; 14

Content: The concept of Heimat with its seemingly pre- or anti-modern connotations of rootedness in a place of origin is central to a critical understanding of German history and culture. Over the course of the past fifteen years, scholars across a range of disciplines have found new ways to examine the changing notions of Heimat – its multifaceted cultural, literary, and visual history, its gendered connotations, and its national and ideological appropriations. This anthology is the first to examine cultural manifestations of Heimat by giving special consideration to issues of memory and space. The contributions to this volume challenge static notions of place often associated with Heimat. Instead, they explore the social and cultural production of places of belonging as they emerge in literary and visual narratives ranging from 1800 to 2000 and beyond. Although the anthology includes historical perspectives on Heimat, its overall objective is not to trace its cultural or literary history, but to place this complex term into new conceptual contexts. Drawing attention to manifestations of Heimat within German literary and cultural studies provides a rich ground for exploring the transformation of locality in trans/national contexts.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Acknowledgements -- , Table of Contents -- , Introduction: Heimat at the Intersection of Memory and Space -- , SECTION I. Genealogies of Heimat: Poetics – Imagination – Gender -- , Erzählte Heimat und Heimatlichkeit des Erzählens: Zwei poetologische Modelle des 19. Jahrhunderts: bürgerliches Epos (Goethe) und humoristischer Roman (Raabe) -- , Some Versions of Heimat: Goethe and Hölderlin around 1800. Frenssen and Mann around 1900 -- , Gender, Space, and Heimat -- , SECTION II. Urban Heimat : City-Spaces – History – Post/Modernity -- , Kampf um die Stadt als Identitätsverankerung und Geschichtsspeicher -- , Heimat Berlin: Siegfried Kracauer und Alfred Döblin als urbane Ethnografen der klassischen Moderne -- , The Architecture of Heimat in the Mise-en-Scène of Memory: Amie Siegel’s Video Installation -- , SECTION III. Remembering Heimat : Memory Sites – Taboos – Ghosts -- , Ostalgie, Local Identity, and the Quest for Heimat in the Global Age: Julia Schoch’s Mit der Geschwindigkeit des Sommers and Judith Zander’s Dinge, die wir heute sagten -- , „Mein Problem ist das Kontinuum“: Heimat als dynamischer Gedächtnisraum im Werk Franz Fühmanns -- , Geisterlandschaften: The Memory of Heimat in Recent Berlin School Films -- , SECTION IV. Challenging Heimat : Language – Culture – Objects -- , Heimat, Modernity, and the Archive: Günter Grass’s Grimms Wörter. Eine Liebeserklärung -- , The Emotional Geography of a Lost Space: Germany as an Object of Jewish Attachment after 1945 -- , Prozesse der „Beheimatung“: Alltags- und Memorialobjekte -- , Epilogue: Home as Elsewhere -- , Bibliography -- , Contributors -- , Index , In English.

Additional Edition: ISBN 978-3-11-029187-2

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9783110292060

URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110292060