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

by Friederike Eigler

Explores how contemporary novels dealing with flight and expulsion after the Second World War unsettle traditional notions of Heimat without abandoning place-based notions of belonging.

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...

• 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"