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

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. Frontmatter -- 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 Ed. By Josef Stuart Len Cagle, Thomas Herold, Gabriele Maier. Issued Also In Print. Mode Of Access: Internet Via World Wide Web. In English.