The ‘Vision of Home’. Nostalgia in Anna Mitgutsch’s Haus der Kindheit (2000)
The ‘Vision of Home’. Nostalgia in Anna Mitgutsch’s Haus der Kindheit (2000)
This essay explores the function of photographs in Anna Mitgutsch’s Haus der Kindheit (2000) for determining the coordinates of time and place. As a ‘narrative of return’ the novel offers the literary representation of a child refugee’s return to his place of birth and his struggle to reclaim his former home. Drawing on photographic theory and on the theory of nostalgia I am demonstrating how photographs that fuel nostalgic longing ultimately lead to disappointment and resignation because they encourage an attempt at restoration not of place but of time.
Anne Mitgutsch, Austrian literature, nostalgia , photography, Jewish literature
171-183
Reiter, Andrea
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30 December 2016
Reiter, Andrea
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Abstract
This essay explores the function of photographs in Anna Mitgutsch’s Haus der Kindheit (2000) for determining the coordinates of time and place. As a ‘narrative of return’ the novel offers the literary representation of a child refugee’s return to his place of birth and his struggle to reclaim his former home. Drawing on photographic theory and on the theory of nostalgia I am demonstrating how photographs that fuel nostalgic longing ultimately lead to disappointment and resignation because they encourage an attempt at restoration not of place but of time.
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Accepted/In Press date: 13 June 2016
e-pub ahead of print date: 30 December 2016
Published date: 30 December 2016
Keywords:
Anne Mitgutsch, Austrian literature, nostalgia , photography, Jewish literature
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Modern Languages
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Local EPrints ID: 397110
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/397110
ISSN: 1350-7532
PURE UUID: f2178e09-84fc-4433-9180-d02dfbd62276
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