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As a twentieth century phenomenon, mass dictatorship developed its
own modern socio-political engineering system which sought to
achieve the self-mobilization of the masses for radical state
projects. In this sense, it shares a similar mobilization mechanism
with its close cousin, mass democracy. Mass dictatorship requires
the modern platform of the public sphere to spread its clarion call
for the masses to realize their lofty utopian visions. Far from
being a phenomenon that emerged from pre-modern despotic practices,
mass dictatorship reflects the global proliferation of
quintessential modernist assumptions about the transformability of
the individual and society through collective effort. Mass
dictatorship therefore utilizes the utmost modern practices to form
totalitarian cohesion and to stage public spectacles in the search
for extremist solutions to a society's problems. The contributors
examine the phenomenon of mass dictatorship along many different
lines of inquiry, both theoretical as well as empirical in
disparate locations around the globe including Fascist Italy, Nazi
Germany, Interwar Austria, Imperial Japan, Colonial Korea, Colonial
Taiwan, Stalinist Russia, Maoist China, and North Korea.
This volume in the series 'Mass Dictatorship in the Twentieth
Century' sees twelve Swedish, Korean and Japanese scholars,
theorists, and historians of fiction and non-fiction probe the
literary subject of life in 20th century mass dictatorships.
Generously defined, the 'literary' in this context covers a wide
spectrum of narrative forms, ranging from the commercial television
documentary to popular crime fiction, and from digitally restored
amateur film on DVD to the Nobel Prize winning novel. It deals with
mass dictatorship regimes as far apart as Nazi Germany, Park
Chung-hee's South Korea, Stalinist Russia, post-war Hungary, Mao
Zedong's China, apartheid's South Africa, and Ceausescu's Romania.
The interplay of analytical ideas and the transnational
perspectives that this volume brings add a new dimension to our
understanding of traumatic events - 'dark chapters' - in 20th
century history. By focusing the immense role of imagination within
a cultural discourse otherwise dominated by irrefutable facts such
as the existence of Holocaust and Gulag, this volume opens new ways
of thinking perceptively about trauma, power and self.
This volume in the series Mass Dictatorship in the Twentieth
Century series sees twelve Swedish, Korean and Japanese scholars,
theorists, and historians of fiction and non-fiction probe the
literary subject of life in 20th century mass dictatorships.
Mass Dictatorship and Modernity is the second volume in the 'Mass
Dictatorship' series. A transnational, academic research venture,
it interrogates mass dictatorship in a broad historical context,
focusing on the emergence of modernity through interactions of
center and periphery, empire and colony, and democracy and
dictatorship on a global scale.
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