Local - global narratives /
Local - global narratives /
edited by Renate Rechtien and Karoline von Oppen.
- 1 online resource (335 pages)
- German monitor ; no. 68 .
- German Monitor 68. Literature and Cultural Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2007, ISBN: 9789004357969. .
Includes bibliographical references.
Preliminary Material / Introduction / Three Village Tales: Global Localities in Goethe’s Hermann und Dorothea (1797), Kafka’s Das Schloβ (1922), and Leutenegger’s Kontinent (1985) / Once Upon a Time in the Critical Heimat Film: Der plötzliche Reichtum der armen Leute von Kombach and Die Siebtelbauern / From ‘das Haus Österreich’ to ‘Häuser in Österreich’; Local, Transnational and Global Images of House, Home and Heimat in Works by Ingeborg Bachmann, Elisabeth Reichart and Elfriede Jelinek / From Reflection to Speculation, from Memory to Fantasy; Exploring Local Identity in East German Narratives / ‘Die Sehnsucht nach Zugehörigkeit’: An Exploration of Heimat in the Essays and Short Stories of Helga Königsdorf / ‘[…] so unwichtig sind die Orte nicht, an denen wir leben.’ Places of Longing and Belonging in Christa Wolf’s Der geteilte Himmel and Sommerstück / Zwei, drei, viele West Berlin? West German Anti-authoritarianism and the Vietnam Conflict / ‘Aber ich bin wirklich!’ Identity Proliferation and Picaresque Subversion in Katja Behrens’s Die Vagantin / Origins and Displacement in Maren Sell’s Mourir d’absence / ‘Globale Empfindsamkeit’: Rolf Dieter Brinkmann’s Poetics of the Global / Migration und Utopie im deutschen Gegenwartskino am Beispiel von Achim von Borries’ England! und Hans-Christian Schmids Lichter / Berlin’s Hackescher Markt: Gentrification, Cultural Memory and the New Public Square / Excavations at Potsdamer Platz: Die leere Mitte and the Dilemma of (Re)Narrating ‘Other’ Pasts and Presences / Von der rumäniendeutschen Anti-Heimat zum Inbild kommunistischen Grauens: Die Rezeption Herta Müllers in der BRD, in Großbritannien, in Frankreich und in den USA / ‘Ich lebe nicht wirklich in dieser Zeit’: Negotiations of National and Local Identities in Elfriede Brüning’s Post-‘Wende’ Writings / Index of Contributors / Renate Rechtien and Karoline von Oppen -- Karoline von Oppen -- Elizabeth Boa -- Rachel Palfreyman -- Juliet Wigmore -- Susanne Shanks -- Jean E. Conacher -- Renate Rechtien -- Mererid Puw Davies -- Ellie Kennedy -- Kathryn N. Jones -- Marielle Sutherland -- Claudia Gremler -- Anna M. Dempsey -- Annette Seidel Arpaci -- Wiebke Sievers -- Joanne Sayner -- Renate Rechtien and Karoline von Oppen.
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Over the past decade and a half, Germany has experienced a period of political and cultural turbulence which many have attributed to the combined challenges of unification and globalisation. In response to growing exposure to global markets, politics and migration debates about identity have increasingly been renationalised. At the same time, there has been a notable reappraisal in Germany (and in German Studies) of the regional and global as spaces for the construction of identity. This volume sets out to explore these complex and at times contradictory trends, focusing in particular on developments in Germany since the 1970s, although chapters treating earlier periods are also included. The volume brings together British, Irish, German, Canadian and American scholars working in the field, and resulted from a conference organised by Women in German Studies at the University of Bath. The first section is primarily concerned with the specifically German concept of locality known as Heimat and its changing relationship with the global. Included are explorations of the writings of Kafka, Bachmann, Johnson, Sell, Wolf, Brinkmann and Jelinek amongst others as well as films by Schlöndorff and Steyerl. The second section focuses on the impact of the global on institutions and rituals such as commemoration, memorialisation, and architecture, which have traditionally been influential in shaping national self-images. Overall, this volume concludes that the nature of the relationship to the local has fundamentally changed under the impact of globalisation.
English and German.
9789042032132
10.1163/9789042032132 DOI
2007481400
1900 - 2099
German literature--History and criticism.
German literature--History and criticism.--Germany (East)
Civilization.
German literature.
Heimatfilme.
Germany--Civilization--20th century.
Germany--Civilization--21st century.
Germany.
Germany (East)
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
PT236 / .L63 2007
830.9355
Includes bibliographical references.
Preliminary Material / Introduction / Three Village Tales: Global Localities in Goethe’s Hermann und Dorothea (1797), Kafka’s Das Schloβ (1922), and Leutenegger’s Kontinent (1985) / Once Upon a Time in the Critical Heimat Film: Der plötzliche Reichtum der armen Leute von Kombach and Die Siebtelbauern / From ‘das Haus Österreich’ to ‘Häuser in Österreich’; Local, Transnational and Global Images of House, Home and Heimat in Works by Ingeborg Bachmann, Elisabeth Reichart and Elfriede Jelinek / From Reflection to Speculation, from Memory to Fantasy; Exploring Local Identity in East German Narratives / ‘Die Sehnsucht nach Zugehörigkeit’: An Exploration of Heimat in the Essays and Short Stories of Helga Königsdorf / ‘[…] so unwichtig sind die Orte nicht, an denen wir leben.’ Places of Longing and Belonging in Christa Wolf’s Der geteilte Himmel and Sommerstück / Zwei, drei, viele West Berlin? West German Anti-authoritarianism and the Vietnam Conflict / ‘Aber ich bin wirklich!’ Identity Proliferation and Picaresque Subversion in Katja Behrens’s Die Vagantin / Origins and Displacement in Maren Sell’s Mourir d’absence / ‘Globale Empfindsamkeit’: Rolf Dieter Brinkmann’s Poetics of the Global / Migration und Utopie im deutschen Gegenwartskino am Beispiel von Achim von Borries’ England! und Hans-Christian Schmids Lichter / Berlin’s Hackescher Markt: Gentrification, Cultural Memory and the New Public Square / Excavations at Potsdamer Platz: Die leere Mitte and the Dilemma of (Re)Narrating ‘Other’ Pasts and Presences / Von der rumäniendeutschen Anti-Heimat zum Inbild kommunistischen Grauens: Die Rezeption Herta Müllers in der BRD, in Großbritannien, in Frankreich und in den USA / ‘Ich lebe nicht wirklich in dieser Zeit’: Negotiations of National and Local Identities in Elfriede Brüning’s Post-‘Wende’ Writings / Index of Contributors / Renate Rechtien and Karoline von Oppen -- Karoline von Oppen -- Elizabeth Boa -- Rachel Palfreyman -- Juliet Wigmore -- Susanne Shanks -- Jean E. Conacher -- Renate Rechtien -- Mererid Puw Davies -- Ellie Kennedy -- Kathryn N. Jones -- Marielle Sutherland -- Claudia Gremler -- Anna M. Dempsey -- Annette Seidel Arpaci -- Wiebke Sievers -- Joanne Sayner -- Renate Rechtien and Karoline von Oppen.
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
Over the past decade and a half, Germany has experienced a period of political and cultural turbulence which many have attributed to the combined challenges of unification and globalisation. In response to growing exposure to global markets, politics and migration debates about identity have increasingly been renationalised. At the same time, there has been a notable reappraisal in Germany (and in German Studies) of the regional and global as spaces for the construction of identity. This volume sets out to explore these complex and at times contradictory trends, focusing in particular on developments in Germany since the 1970s, although chapters treating earlier periods are also included. The volume brings together British, Irish, German, Canadian and American scholars working in the field, and resulted from a conference organised by Women in German Studies at the University of Bath. The first section is primarily concerned with the specifically German concept of locality known as Heimat and its changing relationship with the global. Included are explorations of the writings of Kafka, Bachmann, Johnson, Sell, Wolf, Brinkmann and Jelinek amongst others as well as films by Schlöndorff and Steyerl. The second section focuses on the impact of the global on institutions and rituals such as commemoration, memorialisation, and architecture, which have traditionally been influential in shaping national self-images. Overall, this volume concludes that the nature of the relationship to the local has fundamentally changed under the impact of globalisation.
English and German.
9789042032132
10.1163/9789042032132 DOI
2007481400
1900 - 2099
German literature--History and criticism.
German literature--History and criticism.--Germany (East)
Civilization.
German literature.
Heimatfilme.
Germany--Civilization--20th century.
Germany--Civilization--21st century.
Germany.
Germany (East)
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
PT236 / .L63 2007
830.9355