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Housebound
Monika Shafi
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Belletristik / Essays, Feuilleton, Literaturkritik, Interviews
Beschreibung
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 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.
Kundenbewertungen
Architectural, Emine Sevgi Özdamar, Housebound, Financial Investment, Monika Shafi, Selfhood, Contemporary German Narratives, Barbara Honigmann, Emotional Experiences, Aesthetic, Walter Kappacher, Belonging, Houses, Social Traditions, Identity Politics, German Literature, Judith Hermann, Jenny Erpenbeck, Arno Geiger, Monika Maron, Domestic Space, Katharina Hacker