Today, a multiplicity of feminist approaches has become an integral part of the fields of German literary and cultural studies. This comprehensive reference provides a much needed synthesis of the contribution women have made to German literature and culture. In entries for more than 500 topics, the volume surveys literary periods, epochs, and genres; critical approaches and theories; important authors and works; female stereotypes; laws and historical developments; literary concepts and themes; and organizations and archives relevant to women and women's studies. Each entry offers a...
Today, a multiplicity of feminist approaches has become an integral part of the fields of German literary and cultural studies. This comprehensive ...
In the debates since 1945 on German history and culture, the concept of generations has become ever more prominent. Recent and ongoing shifts in how the various generations are seen -- and see themselves -- in relation to history and to each other have taken on key importance in contemporary German cultural studies. The seismic events of twentieth-century German history are no longer solely first-generational lived experiences but are also historical moments seen through the eyes of successor generations. The generation, seen as a category of memory, thus holds a key to major shifts in German...
In the debates since 1945 on German history and culture, the concept of generations has become ever more prominent. Recent and ongoing shifts in how t...
Der Band enthalt die Beitrage von drei Sektionen des Warschauer IVG-Kongresses. Die Beitrage der Sektion Post/Nationale Vorstellungen von Heimat in deutschen, europaischen und globalen Kontexten (betreut und bearbeitet von Friederike Eigler unter Mithilfe von Neeti Badwe und Wolfgang Emmerich) greifen die Fragen nach lokalen Formen von Identitat und Bildung eines modernen Heimatbegriffes vor dem Hintergrund von Globalisierungsprozessen und der zunehmenden Bedeutung von transnationalen Diskursen auf. Die Beitrage der Sektion Nationale Erinnerungskulturen im Zeitalter der...
Der Band enthalt die Beitrage von drei Sektionen des Warschauer IVG-Kongresses. Die Beitrage der Sektion Post/Nationale Vorstellungen von Heimat in...
At the end of the Second World War, millions of Germans and Poles fled or were expelled from the border regions of what had been their countries. This monograph examines how, in Cold War and post-Cold War Europe since the 1970s, writers have responded to memories or postmemories of this traumatic displacement. Friederike Eigler engages with important currents in scholarship -- on "Heimat," the much-debated German concept of "homeland"; on the spatial turn in literary studies; and on German-Polish relations -- arguing for a transnational approach to the legacies of flight and expulsion and for...
At the end of the Second World War, millions of Germans and Poles fled or were expelled from the border regions of what had been their countries. This...
