Heimat and Migration

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Heimat and Migration

Reimagining the Regional and the Global in the Twenty-First Century

Literary studies: general

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Collection: Interdisciplinary German Cultural Studies

Language: English

Published by: De Gruyter

Published on: 20th February 2023

Format: LCP-protected ePub

ISBN: 9783110733280


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.

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