“DEAR OLD HOME, DEAR NEW HOME”: ROMANIA AND GERMANY COMPARED IN THE TEXTS OF KARIN GÜNDISCH Cover Image

„DIE LIEBE ALTE HEIMAT, DIE LIEBE NEUE HEIMAT“: RUMÄNIEN UND DEUTSCHLAND IM VERGLEICH BEI KARIN GÜNDISCH
“DEAR OLD HOME, DEAR NEW HOME”: ROMANIA AND GERMANY COMPARED IN THE TEXTS OF KARIN GÜNDISCH

Author(s): Silvana Pop
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai
Keywords: children’s literature; Karin Gündisch; emigration; adjustment; comparison; home; homeland; hometown.

Summary/Abstract: “Dear old home, dear new home”: Romania and Germany compared in the texts of Karin Gündisch. This paper aims to show how Germany and Romania are explicitly compared in the literary texts of Karin Gündisch, a children’s book author from Romania who immigrated to Germany in the 1980s. We also analyze how geographic notions denoting countries are linked to terms with a rather individual quality such ‘home’, ‘homeland’/‚hometown’ in the context of emigration and adjustment.

  • Issue Year: 58/2013
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 57-73
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: German