Heimat - A German Dream

Regional Loyalties and National Identity in German Culture 1890-1990
Erscheinungsjahr 2000
ISBN: 978-0-19-815923-0
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 242 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 350 g

Reihe: Oxford Studies in Modern European Culture

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. Four phases parallel Germany's discontinuous history: Heimat literature as a response to modernization and to regional tensions before the First World War; the inter-war period when Heimat divided into racist ideology, left-wing opposition, and inner resistance to the Third Reich; a post-war dialectic between escapist
1950s Heimat films and right-wing claims to the lost lands in the East to which anti-Heimat theatre and films in the 1960s and 1970s were a response, with the urban Heimat in GDR films adding a socialist twist; regionalism and green politics in the 1980s and German identity beyond Cold War divisions. A
key point of reference in current debates on German history, Heimat looks likely to continue in postmodern and multicultural mode.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Boa, Elizabeth

Palfreyman, Rachel

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Nationalismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Über Autor(innen)

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