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...
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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 - 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 Özdamar build in their texts and what these reveal about contemporary selfhood in Germany and its relationship to the socia
Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture, 121 ; v.121
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Frontcover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1: Bodies, Biographies, and Buildings: Jenny Erpenbeck's Heimsuchung and Katharina Hacker's Der Bademeister; 2: House Inheritance: Arno Geiger's Es geht uns gut and Katharina Hagena's Der Geschmack von Apfelkernen; 3: Escaping to the Countryside: Walter Kappacher's Selina oder Das andere Leben and Monika Maron's Endmoränen; 4: Uncanny Houses: Select Narratives by Judith Hermann, and Susanne Fischer's Die Platzanweiserin
5: Open Houses: Emine Sevgi Özdamar's "Der Hof im Spiegel" and Seltsame Sterne starren zur Erde: Wedding-Pankow 1976-776: (Un)safe Houses: Katharina Hacker's Die Habenichtse and Ian McEwan's Saturday; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index; Backcover
