Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Bodies, Biographies, and Buildings: Jenny Erpenbeck's Heimsuchung and Katharina Hacker's Der Bademeister
- 2 House Inheritance: Arno Geiger's Esgeht uns gut and Katharina Hagena' Der Geschmack von Apfelkernen
- 3 Escaping to the Countryside: Walter Kappacher's Selina oder Das andere Leben and Monika Maron's Endmoränen
- 4 Uncanny Houses: Select Narratives by Judith Hermann, and Susanne Fischer's Die Platzanweiserin
- 5 Open Houses: Emine Sevgi Özdamar's “Der Hof im Spiegel” and Seltsame Sterne starren zur Erde: Wedding-Pankow 1976/77
- 6 (Un)safe Houses: Katharina Hacker's Die Habenichtse and Ian McEwan's Saturday
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 February 2013
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Bodies, Biographies, and Buildings: Jenny Erpenbeck's Heimsuchung and Katharina Hacker's Der Bademeister
- 2 House Inheritance: Arno Geiger's Esgeht uns gut and Katharina Hagena' Der Geschmack von Apfelkernen
- 3 Escaping to the Countryside: Walter Kappacher's Selina oder Das andere Leben and Monika Maron's Endmoränen
- 4 Uncanny Houses: Select Narratives by Judith Hermann, and Susanne Fischer's Die Platzanweiserin
- 5 Open Houses: Emine Sevgi Özdamar's “Der Hof im Spiegel” and Seltsame Sterne starren zur Erde: Wedding-Pankow 1976/77
- 6 (Un)safe Houses: Katharina Hacker's Die Habenichtse and Ian McEwan's Saturday
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- HouseboundSelfhood and Domestic Space in Contemporary German Fiction, pp. i - viiiPublisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2012