Wo Such Country explores the idea of home-but a home without clear boundaries, a home in motion. A German who spent ten years in the U.S. and also witnessed the complexities of German reunification firsthand, Elmar Lueth writes about his idea of home, its shape and texture, which has shifted in unexpected and often startling ways. The autobiographical essays here focus on these shifts, tracing the geographical and psychological borders Lueth has crossed between the U.S., western Germany, and eastern Germany. He writes about his family's business in Germany and examines his ties to this tradition even as he lives an ocean apart, studying and teaching the intricacies of a foreign language in the U.S. Another essay revisits a ferry ride across the Elbe, which formerly marked the border between East and West Germany and now becomes the site of a psychological journey that the author embarks on with his father, into a space neither of them expected to enter. Other essays explore this space and attempt to map its many dimensions, taking readers into the streets of the new Berlin or tracing the difficult legacy of the Holocaust. These are beautifully written and quietly compelling personal essays about family, language and communication, work, love and marriage, home, history, memory, and belonging. Lueth's Journeys will interest anyone who lives or works at the intersection of different spaces, languages, or cultures.
| ISBN: | 9780877457961 |
| Publication date: | 28th February 2002 |
| Author: | Elmar Lueth |
| Publisher: | University of Iowa Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 178 pages |
| Series: | Sightline Books |
| Genres: |
Literary essays Philosophy Social groups, communities and identities |
Wo Such Country explores the idea of home-but a home without clear boundaries, a home in motion. A German who spent ten years in the U.S. and also witnessed the complexities of German reunification firsthand, Elmar Lueth writes about his idea of home, its shape and texture, which has shifted in unexpected and often startling ways. The autobiographical essays here focus on these shifts, tracing the geographical and psychological borders Lueth has crossed between the U.S., western Germany, and eastern Germany. He writes about his family's business in Germany and examines his ties to this tradition even as he lives an ocean apart, studying and teaching the intricacies of a foreign language in the U.S. Another essay revisits a ferry ride across the Elbe, which formerly marked the border between East and West Germany and now becomes the site of a psychological journey that the author embarks on with his father, into a space neither of them expected to enter. Other essays explore this space and attempt to map its many dimensions, taking readers into the streets of the new Berlin or tracing the difficult legacy of the Holocaust. These are beautifully written and quietly compelling personal essays about family, language and communication, work, love and marriage, home, history, memory, and belonging. Lueth's Journeys will interest anyone who lives or works at the intersection of different spaces, languages, or cultures.
No Such Country features in the following genres: Literary essays, Philosophy, Social groups, communities and identities
No Such Country is available in Paperback
No Such Country was written by Elmar Lueth and published by University of Iowa Press
No Such Country has 178 pages
Yes it is part of Sightline Books series