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Index
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction Home in the East
Chapter 1 Home in the East as a Bureaucratic Nightmare: On Property Claims, Media Representations, and the Informative Function of Television Movies
A Deeply Flawed System
Informative Fiction in Television: Taxi to Rathenow
Chapter 2 Home in the East as a Site of Competing Histories: Our House (Griesmayr, 1991) and The Same Old Song (Stöckl, 1992)
Patrilineal Heimat, Patrilineal History in Our House
Matrilineal Heimat and History in The Same Old Song
Heimat as Material Engagement, Not Family History
Chapter 3 Home in the East as a Capitalist Battlefield: The Brocken (Glowna, 1992) and No More Mr. Nice Guy (Buck, 1993)
Commodifying Community in The Brocken
The Cruelty of Capitalism in No More Mr. Nice Guy
Spaces of Resistance?
Chapter 4 Home in the East as an Instrument of the Patriarchy: Judith Hermann’s “Summerhouse, Later” (1998) and Where Love Begins (2014)
Home as an Overdetermined Place in “Summerhouse, Later”
Deterritorialized Home as a Nightmare in Where Love Begins
Is There a Reterritorialization?
Chapter 5 Home in the East as a Threat to Men’s Control: Peter Schneider’s Eduard’s Homecoming (1999) and Karen Duve’s Rain (1999)
Property, History, and Emasculation in Eduard’s Homecoming
Threatening Women, Threatening Landscapes in Rain
Gendered Anxieties, Gendered Fantasies
Chapter 6 Home in the East as a Thing of the Past: Jenny Erpenbeck’s Visitation (2008) and Kathrin Gerlof’s Now That’s a Story (2014)
The Erratic Linearity of Time in Jenny Erpenbeck’s Visitation
Time as Accountability in Kathrin Gerlof’s Now That’s a Story
The Threatening Inevitability of (In)justice
Chapter 7 Home in the East as Corporate Overlord: Juli Zeh’s Unterleuten (2016)
The Alien Invasion of Capitalism, or Not Recognizing the Sociomateriality
Violent Capitalism(s)
The Fallacy of Misrecognition
Coda Home in the East as an Ongoing Issue: Sonja Blattner’s drüben Series and the Importance of Considering Medium
Works Cited
Primary Texts
Secondary Literature and Theoretical Works
Laws, Legal Decisions, and Treaties
Person Index
Notes
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