German narratives of belonging : writing generation and place in the twenty-first century / Linda Shortt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shortt, Linda, author.

Contributor:

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Series:

Germanic literatures ; 4.

Germanic literatures ; 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

German literature--20th century--History and criticism.

German literature.

Marginality, Social, in literature.

Emigration and immigration in literature.

Physical Description:

133 pages ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Legenda, Modern Humanities Research Foundation and Maney Publishing, 2015.

Summary:

Since unification, German culture has experienced a boom in discourses on generation, family and place. Linda Shortt reads this as symptomatic of a wider quest for belonging that mobilises attachment to counter the effects of post-modern deterritorialisation and globalisation. Investigating twenty-first century narratives of belonging by Reinhard Jirgl, Christoph Hein, Angelika Overath, Florian Illies, Juli Zeh, Stephan Wackwitz, Uwe Timm and Peter Schneider, Shortt examines how the desire to belong is repeatedly unsettled by disturbances of lineage and tradition. In this way, she combines an analysis of supermodernity with an enquiry into German memory contests on the National Socialist era, 1968 and 1989 that continue to shape identity in the Berlin Republic. Exploring a spectrum of narratives that range from agitated disavowals of place to romances of belonging, this study illuminates the topography of belonging in contemporary Germany.

Contents:

1 Place, Expulsion, and Belonging 21

2 Generation and Belonging 55

3 Supermodemity and Belonging 95.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

1907975888

9781907975882

OCLC:

880557502

Publisher Number:

99963740246