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Heimat : a critical theory of the German idea of homeland / Peter Blickle.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Blickle, Peter.
- Series:
- Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture (Unnumbered)
- Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Human territoriality--Germany.
- Human territoriality.
- Ethnicity--Germany.
- Ethnicity.
- Nationalism and literature.
- Germany.
- Group identity--Germany.
- Group identity.
- German literature--History and criticism.
- German literature.
- Homeland in literature.
- Nationalism in literature.
- Nationalism and literature--Germany.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 186 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Rochester, NY ; Woodbridge, UK : Camden House, 2002.
- Summary:
- A new analysis of one of the most loaded terms in the German language: Heimat, or Homeland.
- Contents:
- Heimat in Other Languages 2
- Difficulties in Defining Heimat 3
- Identity, Geography, the Need for Heimat, and Innocence 6
- Goals and What Is at Stake 9
- Space, Alienation, Provincialism, Nature, Gender, and Self-Healings 15
- 2 Heimat, Modernity, and Nation 25
- Anthony Giddens's Modernity and Heimat 29
- Jurgen Habermas's Modernity and Heimat 33
- Heimat: A Space Free from Irony 40
- Heimat: A Mythicized Sense of Time 42
- Heimat, the German Nation-State, and Herder's Cultural Nationalism 46
- 3 Heimat and Concepts of Identity 60
- Heimat and the Self 64
- Heimat, Loss, and Heimweh 67
- Heimat and Regression 71
- 4 Heimat and the Feminine 81
- Heimat as the Ideal Woman (Imagined by Men) 83
- Heimat, Freud, and the Uncanny 92
- Women's Voices on Heimat 96
- 5 Heimat, Nature, Landscape, and Ground 112
- Fichte, Schelling, and Heimat: Reenchanting a Disenchanted World 115
- Heimat, Adorno, and the Subject's Imagined Reunion with Nature 120
- The German Affinity for Grounding 122
- 6 Heimat and Innocence (in Childhood, in Religion, in Language, and in Antiheimat) 130
- Heimat and Morality 131
- Heimat: Growing Up without Growing Up 137
- Language as Heimat 139
- Antiheimat as Heimat 142.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [161]-174) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1571132252
- OCLC:
- 48013239
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