Heimat, Loss and Identity: Flight and Expulsion in German Literature from the 1950s to the Present - Couverture rigide

Berger, Karina

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 3034317417 ISBN 13 : 9783034317412

Editeur : Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2014

Synopsis

What became of ethnic Germans in Eastern Europe during the Second World War ? In recent years, their suffering, flight and expulsion during and after the war has attracted increasing critical attention. A wave of literary fiction has accompanied this trend, contributing to, and sometimes triggering, heated debate in the media and German-speaking society more widely. Often said to have broken a ‘taboo', these postunification novels are in fact only the latest in a long history of literary representations of flight and expulsion in German writing. This book offers the first comprehensive account in English of ‘expulsion literature' in West Germany from the early 1950s to present-day Germany, providing detailed readings of both canonical and lesser known texts and carefully placing the novels in their broader literary and historical context. The book demonstrates that these literary representations have often been viewed too narrowly and offers an alternative and, arguably, more positive perspective on the representation of flight and expulsion over six decades in German literature.

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À propos de l'auteur

Karina Berger holds a PhD in German from the University of Leeds. Her previous publications include Germans as Victims in the Literary Fiction of the Berlin Republic (2009), co-edited with Stuart Taberner.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3034317417
• ISBN 13: 9783034317412
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 238
• Coordonnées du fabricant: r.boehm-korff@peterlang.com; r.boehm-korff@peterlang.com; ; Gontardstraße 11; Berlin; 10178; Allemagne