: Josef Stuart Len Cagle, Thomas Herold, Gabriele Maier
: Heimat and Migration Reimagining the Regional and the Global in the Twenty-First Century
: Walter de Gruyter GmbH& Co.KG
: 9783110733150
: Interdisciplinary German Cultural StudiesISSN
: 1
: CHF 117.50
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: Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft
: English
: 258
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Discourses ofHeimat and of migration both negotiate questions of identity, belonging, and integration; moreover, despite the reemergence of right-wing, racist, and exclusionary uses of the termHeimat, there are in fact more recent German-language cultural texts that problematize and challenge a view ofHeimat as a community that excludes the Other than there are promulgating it. This volume addresses the parallel proliferation of discourses ofHeimat and of migration in contemporary German-language culture and demonstrates that the entanglement of migration andHeimat 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.



Len Cagle, Lycoming College, Williamsport, PA;Thomas Herold, Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ
Gabriele Maier, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA.