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Housebound - Selfhood and Domestic Space in Contemporary German Fiction (Hardcover)
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Housebound - Selfhood and Domestic Space in Contemporary German Fiction (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
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Reveals and analyzes the current strong emphasis in German
literature on the role of houses and homes in our constructions of
selfhood and belonging. In life and in fiction, houses are
compelling objects that shape an impressive range of personal and
public affairs. A house embodies experiences often intensely
emotional, and it also represents both a major financial
investmentand a material reality embedded in architectural,
aesthetic, and social traditions. The house, the place where we try
to be at home, can be regarded -- as theorists from Gaston
Bachelard to Edward S. Casey have argued -- as the key space for
our constructions of selfhood and belonging. A host of contemporary
German narratives featuring houses highlight this relationship
between selfhood and domestic space. Beginning with a historical
and theoretical overview of the house in German literature,
Housebound analyzes the shelters -- often highly ambivalent spaces
-- that writers such as Katharina Hacker, Arno Geiger, Walter
Kappacher, Monika Maron, Jenny Erpenbeck, Judith Hermann, Barbara
Honigmann, and Emine Sevgi OEzdamar build in their texts and what
these reveal about contemporary selfhood in Germany and its
relationship to the social world. The concluding comparative
analysis of Katharina Hacker's Die Habenichtse and the English
novelist Ian McEwan's Saturday reveals these developments in
another national literature and makes a case for the global appeal
of the domestic as a major site of identity politics. Monika Shafi
is the Elias Ahuja Professor of German and Chair of the Department
of Women and Gender Studies at the University of Delaware.
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