Heimat and Migration

Download or read book Heimat and Migration written by Josef Stuart Len Cagle and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2023-02-20 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discourses of Heimat and of migration both negotiate questions of identity, belonging, and integration; moreover, despite the reemergence of right-wing, racist, and exclusionary uses of the term Heimat, there are in fact more recent German-language cultural texts that problematize and challenge a view of Heimat as a community that excludes the Other than there are promulgating it. This volume addresses the parallel proliferation of discourses of Heimat and of migration in contemporary German-language culture and demonstrates that the entanglement of migration and Heimat can be productive: it can help us to reframe what it means to have a home, to lose one, find one, or belong to one.