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Representations of Flight and Expulsion in East German Prose Works
Explodes the conventional wisdom that there was a taboo on the topic of flight and expulsion in East Germany.
From the Bonn to the Berlin Republic
The fall of the Berlin Wall and the unification of East and West Germany in 1989/90 were events of world-historical significance. The twentieth anniversary of this juncture represents an excellent opportunity to reflect upon the evolution of the new Berlin Republic. Given the on-going significance of the country for theory and concept–building in many disciplines, an in-depth examination of the case is essential. In this volume, unique in its focus on all aspects of contemporary Germany - culture, historiography, society, politics and the economy - top scholars offer their assessments of the country’s performance in these and other areas and analyze the successes and continued challenges.
The Right to Difference
Develops a theory of intercultural literature to reconcile diversity with traditional notions of German identity
Heimat, Space, Narrative
Explores how contemporary novels dealing with flight and expulsion after the Second World War unsettle traditional notions of Heimat without abandoning place-based notions of belonging. 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 -- ...
Franz Kafka
An erudite analysis of the critical and subversive dimensions of Kafka's writings
Tourism and Memories of Home
This book investigates ‘home’ and ‘homeland’ as destinations of touristic journeys and adds to recent scholarly interest in the intersection between tourism and migration. It covers the temporary visits and journeys in search of home and homelands by migrants, displaced people, exiles and diasporic communities in a wide range of different geographical and historical contexts. Personal and collective forms of memory are shown to play a key role in the motivation for, and experience of, such journeys. The volume contributes to the investigation of the tourism–memory nexus as it conceptualizes memory as underpinning touristic mobility, experience and performativity. Based on ethnographic case studies and other types of qualitative empirical research, the chapters of this book foreground individual touristic experiences, emotions, memories, perceptions, the search for identity and a sense of belonging. The book will be of interest to students and researchers in the fields of tourism, heritage, anthropology, identity studies, memory studies and migration/diaspora studies.
Where Heaven and Earth Meet
Scholars of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam explore the history and significance of one of the most sacred and contested places on the earth
Flucht und Vertreibung im literarischen Diskurs der BRD
Über die Untersuchungen von Ruth Hoffmanns »Die Schlesische Barmherzigkeit« (1950), Kurt Ihlenfelds »Gregors vergebliche Reise« (1961), Utta Danellas »Der Maulbeerbaum« (1964), Arno Surminskis »Jokehnen oder Wie lange fährt man von Deutschland nach Ostpreußen? « (1974) und Günter Grass' »Im Krebsgang« (2002) rekonstruiert Frauke Janzen die Entwicklung des bundesdeutschen literarischen Flucht-und-Vertreibungsdiskurses im Verhältnis zu außerliterarischen Diskursentwicklungen. Ausgehend vom identitätsstiftenden Potential der Literatur untersucht sie die Ausgestaltung des Themas im Spannungsfeld der literarischen, politischen und publizistischen Diskursebenen. Indem so die Genes...
