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

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.

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• Authors: Elizabeth Boa, Elizabeth Palfreyman Boa, Rachel Palfreyman
• Assisted by: Elizabeth Boa (Editor), Rachel Palfreyman (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.2000
• EAN: 9780198159230
• ISBN: 978-0-19-815923-0
• No. of pages: 242
• Series: Oxford Studies in Modern European Culture; Oxford Studies in Modern European Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous