Couverture / Jaquette

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.

Note biographique

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 des matières

• 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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