Heimat, Space, Narrative: Toward a Transnational Approach to Flight and Expulsion

by Friederike Eigler

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1571139036
• ISBN13: 9781571139030
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: Camden House (NY)
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"