TY - BOOK ID - 3486156 TI - Heimat, space, narrative : toward a transnational approach to flight and expulsion AU - Eigler, Friederike AU - Camden House PY - 2014 VL - *112 SN - 9781571139030 1571139036 9781571138927 1571138927 PB - Rochester ; Woodbridge Camden House DB - UniCat KW - German fiction KW - History and criticism. KW - History and criticism KW - Homeland in literature. KW - Collective memory in literature. KW - Displacement (Psychology) in literature. KW - Space and time in literature. KW - Polish fiction KW - Heimatfilme. KW - Heimat films KW - Heimatfilms KW - Homeland films KW - Motion pictures KW - Space and time as a theme in literature KW - Belonging. KW - Cold War. KW - Cultural history. KW - Expulsion. KW - Flight. KW - German-Polish relations. KW - Heimat. KW - Identity. KW - Memories. KW - Modernity. KW - Narrative. KW - Post-Cold War Europe. KW - Second World War. KW - Space. KW - Transnational. KW - Traumatic displacement. KW - Vienna. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:3486156 AB - At the end of the Second World War, millions of Germans and Poles fled or were expelled from the border regions of what had been their countries. This monograph examines how, in cold war and post-cold war Europe since the 1970s, writers have responded to memories or postmemories of this traumatic displacement. Friederike Eigler engages with important currents in scholarship -- on "Heimat," the much-debated German concept of "homeland"; on the spatial turnin literary studies; and on German-Polish relations -- arguing for a transnational approach to the legacies of flight and expulsion and for a spatial approach to Heimat. She explores notions of belonging in selected postwarand contemporary German novels, with a comparative look at a Polish novel, Olga Tokarczuk's House of Day, House of Night (1998). Eigler finds dynamic manifestations of place in Tokarczuk's novel, in Horst Bienek's 1972-1982 Gleiwitz tetralogy about the historical border region of Upper Silesia, and in contemporary novels by Reinhard Jirgl, Christoph Hein, Kathrin Schmidt, Tanja Dückers, Olaf Müller, and Sabrina Janesch. In a decisive departure from earlier approaches, Eigler explores how these novels foster an awareness of the regions' multiethnic and multinational histories, unsettling traditional notions of Heimat without altogether abandoning place-based notions of belonging. Friederike Eigler is Professor of German at Georgetown University. ER -