Heimat Sweet Heimat?

Does it mean Belonging to or Belonging in a place?

Political Polar(bear)ization

Etuden im Schnee and the conveyance of identity

An Abundance of Tropes

Towards the Walachei and Adulthood

Cultural Memory and Cultural Forgetting: Nora Krug’s “Belonging”

Reclaiming Heimat

Coming to terms with one's past can be a difficult and long process, yet when looking back at the past, many personal questions…

A look into generations

Etüden im Schnee (Memoirs of a Polar Bear), by Yoko Tawada, is a three-part novel, presenting (among other things)…

Tschick: a road trip toward maturing

When breaking down genres and themes in books, young adult (YA) and coming-of-age stories…

Generations of Migration: Isolated like a bear on a block of ice.

The story Etueden im Schnee, is a…

Heimat

Overcoming the past to recover the more distant past.

Tschick: Translating John Green

Wolfgang Herrndorf’s Tschick bears all the genre tropes inherent to Young Adult Fiction. The Manic Pixie…