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

by Elizabeth Boa, Rachel Palfreyman

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198159223
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	11/23/2000
Series:	Oxford Studies in Modern European Culture
Pages:	242
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

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

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Mapping the Terrain2. Heimat at the Turn of the Century: The Heimat Art Movement and Clara Viebigs Eifel Fictions3. A Land Fit for Heroes? Ernst Wiechert's Das einfache Leben and Marieluise Fleisser's Pioniere in Ingolstadt4. (Un)happy Families: Heimat and Anti-Heimat in West German Film and Theatre5. At Home in the GDR? Heimat in East German Film6. Heimat Past and Present - A Land Fit for Youth: Lenz's Deutschstunde, Emil Nolde and Heimatkunst, Michael Verhoeven's Das schreckliche Mädchen7. Homeward-bound: Edgar Reitz's Heimat for the 1980s8. Heimat Regained, Dissolved, or Multiplied? Chronology Bibliography