Chapter 7 Home in the East as Corporate Overlord: Juli Zeh’s Unterleuten (2016)

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Acknowledgments vii
3. Contents ix
4. Introduction Home in the East 1
5. Chapter 1 Home in the East as a Bureaucratic Nightmare: On Property Claims, Media Representations, and the Informative Function of Television Movies 20
6. Chapter 2 Home in the East as a Site of Competing Histories: Our House (Griesmayr, 1991) and The Same Old Song (Stöckl, 1992) 50
7. Chapter 3 Home in the East as a Capitalist Battlefield: The Brocken (Glowna, 1992) and No More Mr. Nice Guy (Buck, 1993) 73
8. Chapter 4 Home in the East as an Instrument of the Patriarchy: Judith Hermann’s “Summerhouse, Later” (1998) and Where Love Begins (2014) 98
9. Chapter 5 Home in the East as a Threat to Men’s Control: Peter Schneider’s Eduard’s Homecoming (1999) and Karen Duve’s Rain (1999) 123
10. Chapter 6 Home in the East as a Thing of the Past: Jenny Erpenbeck’s Visitation (2008) and Kathrin Gerlof’s Now That’s a Story (2014) 153
11. Chapter 7 Home in the East as Corporate Overlord: Juli Zeh’s Unterleuten (2016) 181
12. Coda Home in the East as an Ongoing Issue: Sonja Blattner’s drüben Series and the Importance of Considering Medium 200
13. Works Cited 208
14. Index 220