Housebound
Subtitle: domestic space and selfhood in contemporary German fiction
By: Monika Shafi
Series: Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture
Publisher: Camden House
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Rochester, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9781571135247
Subjects: German fiction; Domestic relations in literature; Self in literature; History and criticism; Home in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Bodies, biographies, and buildings: Jenny Erpenbeck's Heimsuchung and Katharina Hacker's Der Bademeister; title: House inheritance: Arno Geiger's Es geht uns gut and Katharina Hacker's Der Geschmack von Apfelkernen; title: Escaping to the countryside: Walter Kappacher's Selina oder das andere Leben and Monika Maron's Endmoranen; title: Haunted houses: selected narratives by Judith Hermann, and Susanne Fischer, Die Platzanweiserin; title: Open houses: Emine Sevgi Ozdamar's "Der Hof im Spiegel" and Seltsame Sterne starren zur Erde: Wedding - Pankow 1976/77; title: (Un) safe houses: Katharina Hacker's Die Habenichtse and Ian McEwan's Saturday.