Heimat and Migration: Reimagining the Regional and the Global in the Twenty-First Century

by Josef Stuart Len Cagle (Editor), Thomas Herold (Editor), Gabriele Maier (Editor)

Overview

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

ISBN-13:	9783110733280
Publisher:	De Gruyter
Publication date:	02/20/2023
Series:	Interdisciplinary German Cultural Studies , #34
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	258
File size:	2 MB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

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