Heimat - A German Dream - Regional Loyalties and National Identity in German Culture 1890-1990 (Hardcover)

The discourse of Heimat, meaning homeland or roots, has been a medium of debate on German identity between region and nation for at least a century. Four phases parallel Germany's discontinuous history: Heimat literature as a response to modernization and to regional tensions before World War I; the inter-war period when Heimat divided into racist ideology, left-wing opposition, and inner resistance to the Third Reich; a post-war dialectic between escapist 1950s Heimat films and right-wing claims to the lost lands in the East to which anti-Heimat theatre and films in the 1960s and 1970s were a response, with the urban Heimat in GDR films adding a socialist twist; regionalism and green politics in the 1980s and German identity beyond Cold War divisions. A key point of reference in debates on German history, Heimat looks likely to continue in postmodern and multicultural mode.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Oxford Studies in Modern European Culture
Release date:	September 2000
First published:	September 2000
Authors:	Elizabeth Boa (Professor of German) • Rachel Palfreyman (Lecturer in German)
Dimensions:	224 x 146 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	242
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-815922-3
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political ideologies > Nationalism Promotions
LSN:	0-19-815922-6
Barcode:	9780198159223

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