Heimat - A German Dream - Regional Loyalties and National Identity in German Culture 1890-1990

Zusatztext 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. Informationen zum Autor Elizabeth Boa is Professor of German, University of Nottingham and author of Kafka: Gender, Class, Race in the Letters and Fictions (OUP, 1996)Rachel Palfreyman is Professor of German, University of Nottingham Klappentext 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. This study explores the theme of German identity between locality and nation in literature and film from the late nineteenth century through to the present, locating key novels and films in a wider cultural context of great significance for an understanding of German history. Zusammenfassung German identity has been a controversial theme throughout the modern age, especially in the wake of unification. This study explores the theme of identity between locality and nation in literature and film from the late nineteenth-century through to the present, locating key novels and films in a wider cultural context of great significance for an understanding of German history. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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: Elizabeth Boa, Elizabeth Palfreyman Boa, Rachel Palfreyman, Palfreyman Rachel
• Assisted by: Elizabeth Boa (Editor), Rachel Palfreyman (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.10.2000
• EAN: 9780198159223
• ISBN: 978-0-19-815922-3
• No. of pages: 242
• Series: Oxford Studies in Modern European Culture; Oxford Studies in Modern European Culture; Oxford Studies in Modern Europ
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > German linguistics / literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Germany, Nationalism, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, german, Literary studies: general, Nationalism and nationalist ideologies and movements