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Title

Imagining mass dictatorships : the individual and the masses in literature and cinema / edited by Michael Schoenhals and Karin Sarsenov.

Publication

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

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Additional Authors

• Schoenhals, Michael.
• Sarsenov, Karin.

Description

xi, 316 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

"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"--

Series Statement

Mass dictatorship in the 20th century

Uniform Title

Mass dictatorship in the 20th century.

Subject

• Dictatorship in literature
• Literature and society
• Literature, Modern > 20th century > History and criticism
• Fiction > 20th century > History and criticism

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction / Michael Schoenhals and Karin Sarsenov -- 1. The Constitution of a Reliable Self: Word for Word by Oleg Dorman and Lilianna Lungina / Karin Sarsenov -- 2. The Post-Communist Afterlife of Dissident Writers: The Case of Herta Müller . Anamaria Dutceac Segesten -- 3. Challenging the 'Holocaust-Reflex': Imre Kertész's Fatelessness: A Novel / Anders Ohlsson -- 4. Ulrike and the War: World War II, Mass Dictatorship and Nazism in the Eyes of a German Girl / Bibi Jonsson -- 5. Through the eyes of a child: Childhood and Mass Dictatorship in Modern European Literature / Karin Nykvist -- 6. Is Fictional Literature Incapable of Imagining the Shoah? / Björn Larsson -- 7. Politics, Imagination and Everyday Life in Nadine Gordimer's The Pickup / Seonjoo Park -- 8. Innocence by Association? Everyday Nazism on DVD / Mats Jönsson -- 9. The Good, the Bad and the Collaborators: Swedish World War II Guilt Redefined in Twenty-First Century Crime Fiction? / Kerstin Bergman -- 10. Who are 'we'?: The Dynamics of Consent and Coercion in Yi Mun-gu's Our Neighbourhood / Shin Hyung-ki -- 11. Swedish Proletarians towards Freedom. Ideals of Participation as Propaganda in the Communist Children's Press of the 1920s / Jimmy Vulovic -- 12. The Masses in Their Own Write (and Draw): A Heroes' Register from the Great Cultural Revolution in Yunnan / Michael Schoenhals -- Postscript / Naoki Sakai.

Call Number

JFD 13-1851

ISBN

• 9781137330680 (hardback)
• 1137330686 (hardback)

LCCN

2013032263

OCLC

858778198

Title

Imagining mass dictatorships : the individual and the masses in literature and cinema / edited by Michael Schoenhals and Karin Sarsenov.

Imprint

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

Series

Mass dictatorship in the 20th century

Mass dictatorship in the 20th century.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Added Author

Schoenhals, Michael.

Sarsenov, Karin.

Research Call Number

JFD 13-1851