Heimatand the Place of Humans in the World
Jenny Erpenbeck'sHeimsuchungin Ecocritical Perspective
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4070852 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Axel Goodbody (0000-0003-1487-3147, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 127-151 |
| Publication date | 2016-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | New German Critique (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0094-033X • E-ISSN: 1558-1462 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/0094033x-3511907 |
| OpenAlex | W139266813 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 32 |
This article considers the human-nature relationship in modern Heimat (homeland) discourse and its depiction in literary representations of Heimat. The first part examines the environmental turn in thinking on Heimat in the 1970s and shows how it was part of a wider shift in the understanding of Heimat, which has paralleled developments in both spatial and ecocritical theory. It proposes that literary representations of the homeland can facilitate an alternative form of dwelling involving a new kind of attachment to place and a nondualist relationship with nature. The second part analyzes Jenny Erpenbeck's novel Heimsuchung (Visitation, 2008) through Gernot Böhme's ecological nature aesthetics and the material ecocriticism of Jane Bennett and of Serenella Iovino and Serpil Oppermann. Their respective "new humanist" and "posthumanist" theoretical frameworks offer insights into Erpenbeck's account of efforts to make the place described a home and of its function as homeland
Aesthetics · Art · Depiction · Ecocriticism · Epistemology · Function (biology · Homeland · Humanism · Literature · Metaphysics · Perspective (graphical · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Visual arts · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law · Literature and Cultural Memory · Philosophy
Generational Shifts in Contemporary German Culture
Readings in Twenty-First-Century European Literatures
The Meaning of Things
Heimat A German Dream
Die grunen Inseln. Zur Kritik des literarischen Heimatkomplexes
Nomadic subjects
Pastoral
A Nation of Provincials
A Greener Vision of Home
Heimat im Roman
Kein Land in Sicht. Heimat. Weiblich
Literatur and Provinz
Reading Atmospheres
Material Ecocriticism
Sense of Place and Sense of Planet
The Territorial Imperative
"Critical Approaches to Heimat and the "Spatial Turn
Heimat as Nonplace and Terrain Vague in Jenny Erpenbeck's Heimsuchung and Julia Schoch's Mit der Geschwindigkeit des Sommers
Vibrant Matter
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |