| Reviews |
| - 'Boa and Palfreyman supply a rich and varied fare ... handsomely produced, with good illustrations.' - Modern Language Review
- 'What this study achieves, above all else, is to underscore the constant yearning of the German psyche for a potent and cohesive identity, compelling us to ponder not only the cultural accomplishments this has inspired, but also the afflictions it has, in no small part, brought upon the nation' - Forum for Modern Language Studies
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| Description | | - A examination of contemporary German culture: literature, film, history, and politics
| | The discourse of Heimat, meaning homeland or roots, has been a medium of debate on German identity between region and nation for at least a century. Four phases parallel Germany's discontinuous history: Heimat literature as a response to modernization and to regional tensions before the First World War; the inter-war period when Heimat divided into racist ideology, left-wing opposition, and
inner resistance to the Third Reich; a post-war dialectic between escapist 1950s Heimat films and right-wing claims to the lost lands in the East to which anti-Heimat theatre and films in the 1960s and 1970s were a response, with the urban Heimat in GDR films adding a socialist twist; regionalism and green politics in the 1980s and German identity beyond Cold War divisions. A key point of
reference in current debates on German history, Heimat looks likely to continue in postmodern and multicultural mode. |
Readership: 2nd/3rd year undergraduates, postgraduates, and scholars of German literature, culture, history, politics, and film.
| Contents |
1.
Introduction: Mapping the Terrain
2.
Heimat at the Turn of the Century: The Heimat Art Movement and Clara Viebigs Eifel Fictions
3.
A Land Fit for Heroes? Ernst Wiechert's Das einfache Leben
and Marieluise Fleisser's Pioniere in Ingolstadt
4.
(Un)happy Families: Heimat and Anti-Heimat in West German Film and Theatre
5.
At Home in the GDR? Heimat in East German Film
6.
Heimat Past and Present - A Land Fit for Youth: Lenz's Deutschstunde
, Emil Nolde and Heimatkunst
, Michael Verhoeven's Das schreckliche Mädchen
7.
Homeward-bound: Edgar Reitz's Heimat
for the 1980s
8.
Heimat Regained, Dissolved, or Multiplied?
Chronology
Bibliography
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| Authors, editors,
and contributors |
Elizabeth Boa, Professor of German and
Rachel Palfreyman, Lecturer in German, both at the University of Nottingham
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