An Other Kind of Home

This book examines 19th- and 20th-century German literature and film, works by Wedekind, Musil, Ataman, and Sanoussi-Bliss, following themes of gender, sexuality, belonging, abjection, race, and disease. Encountering mutual dependence and abhorrence, the characters rarely experience acceptance, showing that home is a difficult place to find.

Kyle Frackman holds a PhD in German and Scandinavian Studies from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a degree in German Studies from Hamline University (Minnesota). He is currently Assistant Professor of Germanic Studies at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, where he teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on German and Scandinavian literature and film.

Contents: Othering, Abjection, and Belonging – Young Corporeality and Unstable Morality in Frank Wedekind’s – Discipline, Sexual Complicity, and Queer Space in Robert Musil’s – Transnationalism, Identity, and Fantasy in Kutlu? Ataman’s – Nation, HIV/AIDS, and Sexuality in Pierre Sanoussi-Bliss’s .