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Communism in twentieth-century Europe is predominantly narrated as
a totalitarian movement and/or regime. This book aims to go beyond
this narrative and provide an alternative framework to describe the
communist past. This reframing is possible thanks to the concepts
of generation and gender, which are used in the book as analytical
categories in an intersectional overlap. The publication covers
twentieth-century Poland, Czechoslovakia/Czech Republic, the Soviet
Union/Russia, former Yugoslavia, Turkish communities in West
Germany, Italy, and Cuba (as a comparative point of reference). It
provides a theoretical frame and overview chapters on several
important gender and generation narratives about communism,
anticommunism, and postcommunism. Its starting point is the belief
that although methodological reflection on communism, as well as on
generations and gender, is conducted extensively in contemporary
research, the overlapping of these three terms is still rare. The
main focus in the first part is on methodological issues. The
second part features studies which depict the possibility of
generational-gender interpretations of history. The third part is
informed by biographical perspectives. The last part shows how the
problem of generations and gender is staged via the medium of
literature and how it can be narrated.
The Afterlife of the Shoah in Central and Eastern European Cultures
is a collection of essays by literary scholars from Germany, the
US, and Central Eastern Europe offering insight into the specific
ways of representing the Shoah and its aftereffects as well as its
entanglement with other catastrophic events in the region.
Introducing the conceptual frame of postcatastrophe, the collected
essays explore the discursive and artistic space the Shoah occupies
in the countries between Moscow and Berlin. Postcatastrophe is
informed by the knowledge of other concepts of "post" and shares
their insight into forms of transmission and latency; in contrast
to them, explores the after-effects of extreme events on a
collective, aesthetic, and political rather than a personal level.
The articles use the concept of postcatastrophe as a key to
understanding the entangled and conflicted cultures of remembrance
in postsocialist literatures and the arts dealing with events,
phenomena, and developments that refuse to remain in the past and
still continue to shape perceptions of today's societies in Eastern
Europe. As a contribution to memory studies as well as to literary
criticism with a special focus on Shoah remembrance after
socialism, this book is of great interest to students and scholars
of European history, and those interested in historical memory more
broadly.
Communism in twentieth-century Europe is predominantly narrated as
a totalitarian movement and/or regime. This book aims to go beyond
this narrative and provide an alternative framework to describe the
communist past. This reframing is possible thanks to the concepts
of generation and gender, which are used in the book as analytical
categories in an intersectional overlap. The publication covers
twentieth-century Poland, Czechoslovakia/Czech Republic, the Soviet
Union/Russia, former Yugoslavia, Turkish communities in West
Germany, Italy, and Cuba (as a comparative point of reference). It
provides a theoretical frame and overview chapters on several
important gender and generation narratives about communism,
anticommunism, and postcommunism. Its starting point is the belief
that although methodological reflection on communism, as well as on
generations and gender, is conducted extensively in contemporary
research, the overlapping of these three terms is still rare. The
main focus in the first part is on methodological issues. The
second part features studies which depict the possibility of
generational-gender interpretations of history. The third part is
informed by biographical perspectives. The last part shows how the
problem of generations and gender is staged via the medium of
literature and how it can be narrated.
The concept of "camp narratives" rather than "Holocaust narratives"
or "Gulag narratives" is based on the assumption that literary
accounts of camp experiences share common traits, aesthetically as
well as thematically. The book presents readings of camp literature
that underscore the similarities between texts about Soviet gulag
camps, Nazi camps and about other camp experiences. While
literature about Nazi concentration camps still serves as a point
of reference for camp narratives in the same way that the Holocaust
serves as a point of reference for other genocidal operations,
socialist labor and penal camps have become transnational lieux de
memoire in their own right since 1989. This volume intends to
provide a theoretical frame as well as an overview of several
important European camp literatures and case studies of iconic camp
narratives and to take a comparative and transnational perspective
on the genre of the camp narrative.
The concept of "camp narratives" rather than "Holocaust narratives"
or "Gulag narratives" is based on the assumption that literary
accounts of camp experiences share common traits, aesthetically as
well as thematically. The book presents readings of camp literature
that underscore the similarities between texts about Soviet gulag
camps, Nazi camps and about other camp experiences. While
literature about Nazi concentration camps still serves as a point
of reference for camp narratives in the same way that the Holocaust
serves as a point of reference for other genocidal operations,
socialist labor and penal camps have become transnational lieux de
memoire in their own right since 1989. This volume intends to
provide a theoretical frame as well as an overview of several
important European camp literatures and case studies of iconic camp
narratives and to take a comparative and transnational perspective
on the genre of the camp narrative.
This book analyzes the ideology-based reception of Adam Mickiewicz
in Communist Poland and of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in East
Germany, the dynamics of that process and the strategies used to
exploit the iconic status of the poets for the purpose of
reaffirming the legitimacy of the new system. The basic question
tackled here concerns the similarities and differences between the
Polish and German styles of harnessing poets into the service of
politics. These issues are presented in view of the cultural and
political life, i.e. public appearances by prominent politicians
and culture activists, Marxist history of literature and literary
works that ennobled Mickiewicz and Goethe in a hagiographic manner.
This anthology presents a selection of texts on Polish socialist
realist literature, written from the early 1980s to date. They
depict a comprehensive picture of this literary phenomenon:
starting from its holistic interpretations, through detailed
analyses of the poetics of literary and political texts and a
presentation of specific, also untypical embodiments of this
artistic doctrine, to descriptions of the functioning of the
institutions of literary life under socialist realism. All the
texts in this anthology share a historically and culturally
determined general methodological perspective, representing a
combination of the Polish version of structuralism in literary
studies - on the descriptive plane - with the anti-communist
attitude on the plane of evaluation of presented phenomena.
Der Band behandelt die Nachwirkungen und das Nachleben der Shoah in
Polen und in Deutschland. Die Begriffe des Postkatastrophischen und
der Vergegenwartigung verweisen darauf, dass die Beitrage den
Schwerpunkt nicht auf das eigentliche Ereignis, sondern auf sein
Nachleben legen, d.h. auf die Art und Weise, wie die Shoah in
Kunsten, Medien und durch Institutionen prasent gehalten wird. Der
Sammelband untersucht Formen medialer Vermittlung der Shoah. Die
Beitrager arbeiten die asthetischen und diskursiven Eigenheiten
sowie die Besonderheiten deutscher oder polnischer Konstellationen
heraus. Die Schwerpunkte der Auseinandersetzungen liegen einerseits
in oeffentlichen und historischen Diskursen, andererseits im
Bereich asthetischer Vermittlung.
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