Heimat without Qualities: Sprachkritik in the 'Miracley Ears'.
Heimat is commonly theorized as an entity both co-extensive with the nation and easily describable in terms of its regional peculiarities (Eigenart). To challenge this view, this article turns to sociolinguistic discussions in the press of Sudeten German expellees in the early 1950s. Rather than spe...
| Publicado en: | German Politics & Society Vol. 29; no. 4; pp. 47 - 68 |
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Berghahn Books
12/25/2011
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