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Kaliningrad and cultural memory : Cold War and post-Soviet representations of a resettled city

Title: Kaliningrad and cultural memory : Cold War and post-Soviet representations of a resettled city / Edward Saunders.
Author: Saunders, Edward (Edward Isaac John)
Publication: Oxford ; New York : Peter Lang, [2019]

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Description

viii, 308 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.

Summary

"In 1945, the Soviet Union annexed the East Prussian city of Königsberg, later renaming it Kaliningrad. Left in ruins by the war, the home of Immanuel Kant became a Russian city, a source of historical and cultural fascination for settlers, former inhabitants, visitors and observers alike. New settlers replaced the German population in the years that followed. This book looks at three aspects of Kaliningrad's relationship to the memory of Königsberg through cultural and literary sources and visual representations. First, it addresses the symbolism of Königsberg as a memory site in German culture and nostalgia for the city after 1945. Second, it discusses imagined and satirical literary-cultural adaptations and deconstructions of the idea of 'Kant and Königsberg' during the Cold War and afterwards. Third, it explores and reflects on discourses of memory, history and nostalgia in representations of the city by poets, photographers and filmmakers visiting Kaliningrad from the 1960s onwards. The book provides an introduction to the memory debates relating to Königsberg-Kaliningrad, as well as new critical readings of literary texts, films and photographic works"--

Series Statement

Cultural memories ; vol. 12

Uniform Title

Cultural memories ; vol. 12.

Subjects

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-298) and index.

Contents

Königsberg as a lapsed and unfulfilled site of Germany's collective-autobiographical memory -- Renaming debates and local strategies of collective-autobiographical memory in Kaliningrad -- Lost "cultural intimacy" and individual forms of nostalgic memory for Königsberg -- Toppling a monument : adapting biomyths in satires on "Kant and Königsberg" -- "Kant and Königsberg" and failed revolutions in Bertolt Brecht's adaptation of Der Hofmeister -- Countering loss through literature : Johannes Bobrowski's imagined Königsberg -- Joseph Brodsky in Kaliningrad : postcards, photographs and reflections at the "Earth's border" -- Ecocritical postcommunism? Visits to Kaliningrad after Perestroika -- Ruin ethics and aesthetics : "Kant and Kaliningrad" in the photography of Joachim Koester and Norbert Wiesneth.

Call Number

JFE 19-5322

ISBN

9781787072749
1787072746

LCCN

2018053968

OCLC

1086483043

Author

Saunders, Edward (Edward Isaac John), author.

Title

Kaliningrad and cultural memory : Cold War and post-Soviet representations of a resettled city / Edward Saunders.

Publisher

Oxford ; New York : Peter Lang, [2019]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Cultural memories ; vol. 12

Cultural memories ; vol. 12.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-298) and index.

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Research Call Number

JFE 19-5322

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