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The discourse of Heimat, meaning homeland or roots, has been a medium of debate on German identity between region and nation for at least a century. Four phases parallel Germany's discontinuous history: Heimat literature as a response to modernization and to regional tensions before the First World War; the inter-war period when Heimat divided into racist ideology, left-wing opposition, and inner resistance to the Third Reich; a post-war dialectic between escapist 1950s Heimat films and right-wing claims to the lost lands in the East to which anti-Heimat theatre and films in the 1960s and 1970s were a response, with the urban Heimat in GDR films adding a socialist twist; regionalism and green politics in the 1980s and German identity beyond Cold War divisions. A key point of reference in current debates on German history, Heimat looks likely to continue in postmodern and multicultural mode.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Politics & government Political ideologies

• Full title: Heimat - A German Dream
• Subtitle: Regional Loyalties and National Identity in German Culture 1890-1990
• Author: Elizabeth Boa, Rachel Palfreyman
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 242
• EAN: 9780198159230
• ISBN: 0198159234
• ID: 04522343
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Weight: 302 g
• Dimensions: 216 × 138 × 14 mm
• Date of publishing: 21. September 2000

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