Heimat, loss and identity: : flight and expulsion in German literature from the 1950s to the present / Karina Berger.

Author/creator Berger, Karina, 1977- author.
Format Book
PublicationOxford ; New York : Peter Lang, 2014.
Description227 pages ; 23 cm.
Subjects
German fiction--20th century. --History and criticism.
German fiction--21st century. --History and criticism.
Displacement (Psychology) in literature.
Collective memory in literature.

SeriesStudies in modern German and Austrian literature ; volume 2
Studies in modern German and Austrian literature volume 2. ^A1258122
Contents Victims of fate: the representation of flight and expulsion in novels of the early postwar period -- A clear counter-discourse: expulsion novels during the politicized 1970s and 1980s -- The volte-face in the reception of Walter Kempowski: shifting attitudes towards (representations of) German wartime suffering -- An era of normalization? representations of flight and expulsion in postunification Germany.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 211-223) and index.
LCCN 2014025567
ISBN9783034317412 (Print)
ISBN3034317417 (Print)

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Joyner General Stacks PT772 .B365 2014 ✔ Available Place Hold