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.

Product details

• Assisted by: Josef Stuart Len Cagle (Editor), Thomas Herold (Editor), Gabriele Maier (Editor)
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Languages: English, German
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.02.2023
• EAN: 9783110738155
• ISBN: 978-3-11-073815-5
• No. of pages: 258
• Dimensions: 164 mm x 19 mm x 248 mm
• Weight: 485 g
• Series: Interdisciplinary German Cultural Studies
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies