Housebound : selfhood and domestic space in contemporary German fiction /
Shafi, Monika.
Rochester, NY : Camden House,
2012.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-216) and index.
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.
German fiction
Home in literature.
Self in literature.
Domestic relations in literature.