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Fascism and Neofascism
Critical Writings on the Radical Right in Europe
Av Angelica Fenner, Eric D. Weitz m. fl.
Inbunden, 2004
523 kr
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The dramatic transformations of the the 1990s - the end of the Cold War, the establishment of political liberties and market economies in Eastern Europe, German unification - quickly led commentators to proclaim the end of all ideologies and the complete triumph of liberal capitalism. Just as …
Baader-Meinhof and the Novel
Narratives of the Nation / Fantasies of the Revolution, 1970–2010
Av J. Preece
Häftad, 2012
635 kr
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The Baader-Meinhof Group and other violent underground organizations have provided material to many novels by leading German and international writers. This book is the first to examine this rich literary corpus, treating it as a political unconscious which expresses submerged anxieties and moral …
Cinema after Fascism
The Shattered Screen
Av S. Craig
Inbunden, 2010
586 kr
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Cinema After Fascism considers how postwar European films glance ambivalently backward from the postwar period to the fascist era and delves into issues of gender certainties and spectatorship. In this period of film, familiar structures of epistemology and historiography reappear as ghostly …
Weimar Culture Revisited
Av J. Williams, John Alexander Williams
Inbunden, 2011
569 kr
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Weimar Culture Revisited is the first book to offer an accessible cross-section of new cultural history approaches to the Weimar Republic. This collection uses an interdisciplinary approach and focuses on the everyday workings of Weimar culture to explain the impact and meaning of culture for …
Terror and the Sublime in Art and Critical Theory
From Auschwitz to Hiroshima to September 11
Av G. Ray
Häftad, 2011
635 kr
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The eleven interconnected essays of this book penetrate the dense historical knots binding terror, power and the aesthetic sublime and bring the results to bear on the trauma of September 11 and the subsequent War on Terror. Through rigorous critical studies of major works of post-1945 and …
German Wall
Fallout in Europe
Inbunden, 2011
569 kr
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This interdisciplinary volume addresses the consequences of the fall of the Berlin Wall, from the revitalizing effect it had on Germany to the new challenges of integrating socially and politically old and new minorities, and forming a new European identity. It also considers how the fall was …
Local History, Transnational Memory in the Romanian Holocaust
Inbunden, 2011
569 kr
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This book explores the memory of the Romanian Holocaust in Romanian, German, Israeli, and French cultural representations. The essays in this volume discuss first-hand testimonial accounts, letters, journals, drawings, literary texts and films by Elie Wiesel, Paul Celan, Aharon Appelfeld Norman …
Freedom and Confinement in Modernity
Kafka's Cages
Inbunden, 2011
635 kr
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Kafka's literary universe is organized around constellations of imprisonment. Freedom and Confinement in Modernity proposes that imprisonment does not signify a tortured state of the individual in modernity. Rather, it provides a new reading of imprisonment suggesting it allows Kafka to perform a …
German Unification
Expectations and Outcomes
Av P. Caldwell, R. Shandley m. fl.
Inbunden, 2011
569 kr
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This wide-ranging collection brings together contributions from historians, political scientists, policymakers, and others to provide much-needed perspective on the unification of Germany as it actually played out in real historical time.
Anti-Americanism in European Literature
Av J. Gulddal
Inbunden, 2011
635 kr
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Pursues the hypothesis that fictional literature has been instrumental in the development and dissemination of European anti-Americanism from the early 1800s to today. Focusing on Britain, France and Germany, it offers analyses of a range of canonical literary works in which resentful hostility …
Representing Masculinity
Male Citizenship in Modern Western Culture
Av S. Dudink, Karen Hagemann m. fl.
Häftad, 2012
569 kr
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This book explores the role of masculinity in shaping citizenship in the western world. Can the universal ideal of citizenship be redeemed or is it mired in exclusionary notions of masculinity, race and class? The book traces the ideal of citizenship and its myriad of exclusions from the French …
Baader-Meinhof and the Novel
Narratives of the Nation / Fantasies of the Revolution, 1970–2010
Av J. Preece
Inbunden, 2012
635 kr
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The Baader-Meinhof Group and other violent underground organizations have provided material to many novels by leading German and international writers. This book is the first to examine this rich literary corpus, treating it as a political unconscious which expresses submerged anxieties and moral …
One Family’s Shoah
Victimization, Resistance, Survival in Nazi Europe
Inbunden, 2013
569 kr
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Deploying concepts of interpretation, liberation, and survival, esteemed literary critic Herbert Lindenberger reflects on the diverse fates of his family during the Holocaust. Combining public, family, and personal record with literary, musical, and art criticism, One Family's Shoah suggests a new …
One Family’s Shoah
Victimization, Resistance, Survival in Nazi Europe
Häftad, 2013
569 kr
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Deploying concepts of interpretation, liberation, and survival, esteemed literary critic Herbert Lindenberger reflects on the diverse fates of his family during the Holocaust. Combining public, family, and personal record with literary, musical, and art criticism, One Family's Shoah suggests a new …
Weimar Film and Modern Jewish Identity
Av O. Ashkenazi
Inbunden, 2012
569 kr
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In reading popular films of the Weimar Republic as candid commentaries on Jewish acculturation, Ofer Ashkenzi provides an alternative context for a re-evaluation of the infamous 'German-Jewish symbiosis' before the rise of Nazism, as well as a new framework for the understanding of the German …
Remembering the Occupation in French film
National Identity in Postwar Europe
Av L. Hewitt
Inbunden, 2008
1243 kr
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When collective memory is a source of national debate, the public representation of history quickly becomes a locus of controversy and ideological struggle. This work shows how French film has allowed for a public airing of current concerns through the lens of memory's recreations of the Occupation.
“Gypsies” in European Literature and Culture
Studies in European Culture and History
Inbunden, 2008
1262 kr
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This book traces representations of "Gypsies" that have become prevalent in the European imagination and culture and influenced the perceptions of Roma in Eastern and Western European societies.
Converting a Nation
A Modern Inquisition and the Unification of Italy
Av A. Lang
Inbunden, 2008
552 kr
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Examining a variety of newspapers, novels, and Inquisition trials, Lang demonstrates how the accounts of conversion to the Catholic Church provide an unusual political opinion with serious ramifications in the shaping of national Italian identity during unification.
Choreographing the Global in European Cinema and Theater
Av K. Sieg
Inbunden, 2008
569 kr
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The book explores European artists' critical engagement with the images and stories that politicians and the media use to advocate globalization.
German Postwar Films
Life and Love in the Ruins
Inbunden, 2008
569 kr
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This volume offers a cultural, aesthetic, and critical reappraisal of German 'rubble films' produced in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War and constructs their meaning in a historical context.
Violence and Gender in the "New" Europe
Islam in German Culture
Av B. Weber
Inbunden, 2013
552 kr
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Weber contributes to the ongoing scholarly discussion about Islam in the West, demonstrating how current thinking about gender violence prohibits the intellectual inquiry necessary to act against such violence, and analyzes ways in which Muslim women participate in the public sphere by thematizing …
France, Film, and the Holocaust
From génocide to shoah
Av F. Banaji
Inbunden, 2012
569 kr
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This book explores the relationship between film and the Holocaust in France: how has film changed the way that this traumatic event has been inscribed in French cultural memory? And what can these representations tell us about how we think of and understand the traumas of history?
Tribal Fantasies
Native Americans in the European Imaginary, 1900–2010
Av J. Mackay, D. Stirrup
Inbunden, 2012
569 kr
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This transnational collection discusses the use of Native American imagery in twentieth and twenty-first-century European culture. With examples ranging from Irish oral myth, through the pop image of Indians promulgated in pornography, to the philosophical appropriations of Ernst Bloch or the …
Balkan Prospect
Identity, Culture, and Politics in Greece after 1989
Inbunden, 2013
569 kr
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Following the fall of the Soviet Union in 1989, the borders hitherto separating Greek culture and society from its contiguous Balkan polities came down, and Greeks had to reorient themselves toward their immediate neighbors and redefine their place within Europe and the new, more fluid global …
Critical Companion to Jorge Semprún
Buchenwald, Before and After
Av O. Ferrán, G. Herrmann
Inbunden, 2014
635 kr
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Presenting the first English-language collection of essays on Jorge Semprún, this volume explores the life and work of the Spanish Holocaust survivor, author, and political activist. Essays explore his cultural production in all its manifestations, including the role of testimony and fiction in …
Memory and Postwar Memorials
Confronting the Violence of the Past
Av M. Silberman, F. Vatan
Inbunden, 2013
1130 kr
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The twentieth century witnessed genocides, ethnic cleansing, forced population expulsions, shifting borders, and other disruptions on an unprecedented scale. This book examines the work of memory and the ethics of healing in post authoritarian societies that have experienced state-perpetrated …
Punk Rock and German Crisis
Adaptation and Resistance after 1977
Av C. Shahan
Inbunden, 2013
569 kr
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1977 is usually associated with West German terrorism, but it witnessed another cultural watershed: punk music. A new reckoning with the legacy of political and aesthetic spaces, this book argues the centrality of punk music for understanding crises of state and terrorist violence, American racism …
Weimar Culture Revisited
Av J. Williams, John Alexander Williams
Häftad, 2013
625 kr
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Weimar Culture Revisited is the first book to offer an accessible cross-section of new cultural history approaches to the Weimar Republic. This collection uses an interdisciplinary approach and focuses on the everyday workings of Weimar culture to explain the impact and meaning of culture for …
Reimagining the European Family
Cultures of Immigration
Av P. Simpson
Inbunden, 2013
552 kr
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Re-imagining the Family explores contemporary films and literature about the effects of legal and illegal immigration on the structure and the stories of the contemporary 'European' family, with a focus on Germany.
Transnationalism and the German City
Av J. Diefendorf, J. Ward
Inbunden, 2014
552 kr
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Too often, scholars treat transnationalism as a conflict in which the local, regional, and national give way to globalized identity. As these varied studies of German cities show, though, the urban environment is actually a site of trans-localism that is not merely oppositional, but that adapts …
