The Resource Housebound : selfhood and domestic space in contemporary German fiction, Monika Shafi, (electronic resource)
Housebound : selfhood and domestic space in contemporary German fiction, Monika Shafi, (electronic resource)
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- Summary
- 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 investment and 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 Özdamar 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.--
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xiv, 223 pages)
- Contents
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- 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 Endmoränen
- Uncanny houses : selected narratives by Judith Hermann, and Susanne Fischer's, Die Platzanweiserin
- Open houses : Emine Sevgi Özdamar'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
- Isbn
- 9781571138323
- Label
- Housebound : selfhood and domestic space in contemporary German fiction
- Title
- Housebound
- Title remainder
- selfhood and domestic space in contemporary German fiction
- Statement of responsibility
- Monika Shafi
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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 investment and 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 Özdamar 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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- Shafi, Monika
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- dictionaries
- Series statement
- Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- German fiction
- Home in literature
- Self in literature
- Domestic relations in literature
- Label
- Housebound : selfhood and domestic space in contemporary German fiction, Monika Shafi, (electronic resource)
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- online resource
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- Contents
- 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 Endmoränen -- Uncanny houses : selected narratives by Judith Hermann, and Susanne Fischer's, Die Platzanweiserin -- Open houses : Emine Sevgi Özdamar'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
- Control code
- CR9781571138323
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xiv, 223 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Governing access note
- Use of this electronic resource may be governed by a license agreement which restricts use to the European University Institute community. Each user is responsible for limiting use to individual, non-commercial purposes, without systematically downloading, distributing, or retaining substantial portions of information, provided that all copyright and other proprietary notices contained on the materials are retained. The use of software, including scripts, agents, or robots, is generally prohibited and may result in the loss of access to these resources for the entire European University Institute community
- Isbn
- 9781571138323
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- c
- Other physical details
- digital, PDF file(s).
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)813536510
- Label
- Housebound : selfhood and domestic space in contemporary German fiction, Monika Shafi, (electronic resource)
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- 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 Endmoränen -- Uncanny houses : selected narratives by Judith Hermann, and Susanne Fischer's, Die Platzanweiserin -- Open houses : Emine Sevgi Özdamar'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
- Control code
- CR9781571138323
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xiv, 223 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Governing access note
- Use of this electronic resource may be governed by a license agreement which restricts use to the European University Institute community. Each user is responsible for limiting use to individual, non-commercial purposes, without systematically downloading, distributing, or retaining substantial portions of information, provided that all copyright and other proprietary notices contained on the materials are retained. The use of software, including scripts, agents, or robots, is generally prohibited and may result in the loss of access to these resources for the entire European University Institute community
- Isbn
- 9781571138323
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Other physical details
- digital, PDF file(s).
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)813536510
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