Heimat, space, narrative : toward a transnational approach to flight and expulsion

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Label

Heimat, space, narrative : toward a transnational approach to flight and expulsion

Title remainder

toward a transnational approach to flight and expulsion

Statement of responsibility

Friederike Eigler

Creator

• Eigler, Friederike Ursula

Author

• Eigler, Friederike Ursula

Subject

• Space and time in literature
• Homeland in literature
• Displacement (Psychology) in literature
• Heimatfilme
• Polish fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
• Collective memory in literature
• German fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism

Language

eng

Summary

At the end of the Second World War, millions of Germans and Poles fled or were expelled from the border regions of what had been their countries. This monograph examines how, in cold war and post-cold war Europe since the 1970s, writers have responded to memories or postmemories of this traumatic displacement. Friederike Eigler engages with important currents in scholarship -- on "Heimat," the much-debated German concept of "homeland"; on the spatial turnin literary studies; and on German-Polish relations -- arguing for a transnational approach to the legacies of flight and expulsion and for a spatial approach to Heimat. She explores notions of belonging in selected postwarand contemporary German novels, with a comparative look at a Polish novel, Olga Tokarczuk's House of Day, House of Night (1998). Eigler finds dynamic manifestations of place in Tokarczuk's novel, in Horst Bienek's 1972-1982 Gleiwitz tetralogy about the historical border region of Upper Silesia, and in contemporary novels by Reinhard Jirgl, Christoph Hein, Kathrin Schmidt, Tanja Dückers, Olaf Müller, and Sabrina Janesch. In a decisive departure from earlier approaches, Eigler explores how these novels foster an awareness of the regions' multiethnic and multinational histories, unsettling traditional notions of Heimat without altogether abandoning place-based notions of belonging. Friederike Eigler is Professor of German at Georgetown University

Member of

• Online access with EBA: Cambridge Books Online
• Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture
• Online access with EBA: JSTOR

Cataloging source

UkCbUP

Dewey number

833/.91409358

Index

index present

LC call number

PT772

LC item number

.E357 2014

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries