Publisher's Synopsis
The redefinition of the concept of home that is taking place in the age of globalisation stimulates a deeper reflection on its understanding and function in literary texts, reviving the centuries-old discourse, especially in the work of those authors who identify strongly with a region, mourn the loss of their homeland and try to settle in a new one as refugees, displaced persons or migrants. Ruth Storm (1905-1993), a writer from Silesia, also suffered the fate of a displaced person and foreigner, which she tried to overcome in her writing. The narrative form of the remembered and experienced images of homeland reflects on the one hand their reconstructive, realistic character, and on the other hand they characterise a teleological search for a universal, open and everlasting homeland that affirms the subject, especially the female subject, in its autonomy. The analyses and interpretations of selected prose works by Storm are integrated into modern discourses of memory, space and narrativity, which make it possible to shed new light on lost homeland.
