Housebound : Selfhood and Domestic Space in Contemporary German Fiction /

The house, the place where we try to be at home, can be regarded as the key space in which we construct our selfhood and belonging. A host of contemporary German narratives featuring houses highlight this relationship between selfhood and domestic space. 'Housebound' analyzes the shelters...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Shafi, Monika
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Colección:Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture.
Temas:
1900-1999
German fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Home in literature.
Self in literature.
Domestic relations in literature.
Roman allemand > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Foyer dans la littérature.
Moi (Psychologie) dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > German.
German fiction.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Bodies, biographies, and buildings: Jenny Erpenbeck's Heimsuchung and Katharina Hacker's Der Bademeister
  • House inheritance: Arno Geiger's Es geht uns gut and Katharina Hacker's Der Geschmack von Apfelkernen
  • Escaping to the countryside: Walter Kappacher's Selina oder das andere Leben and Monika Maron's Endmoranen
  • Haunted houses: selected narratives by Judith Hermann, and Susanne Fischer, Die Platzanweiserin
  • Open houses: Emine Sevgi Ozdamar's "Der Hof im Spiegel" and Seltsame Sterne starren zur Erde: Wedding-Pankow 1976/77
  • (Un) safe houses: Katharina Hacker's Die Habenichtse and Ian McEwan's Saturday.

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