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(Hi-)Stories of the Gulag : fiction and reality / edited by Felicitas Fisher von Weikersthal, Karoline Thaidigsmann ; im Auftragder Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften, Akademie des Landes Baden-Württemberg.

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(Hi-)Stories of the Gulag : fiction and reality / edited by Felicitas Fisher von Weikersthal, Karoline Thaidigsmann ; im Auftragder Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften, Akademie des Landes Baden-Württemberg.

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Heidelberg : Universitätsverlag Winter, [2016]
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Description

382 pages : illustrations, charts; 24 cm

Summary

"By bringing together international researchers from historical sciences, literary and cultural studies, film studies, and musicology to analyze the validity and significance of existing Gulag narratives and discuss their impact on the public's perception, the volume contributes to a more thorough understanding of this complex subject."

Series Statement

Akademiekonferenzen ; 21

Uniform Title

Akademiekonferenzen (Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften) ; Bd. 21.

Subject

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language (note)

In English and German.

Processing Action (note)

committed to retain

Contents

Introduction / Felicitas Fischer von Weikersthal, Karoline Thaidigsmann -- Die Gulag-Statistiken im Spiegel von Archivmaterialien und Memoiren / Galina Ivanova -- "Dramatological" trauma in the gulag. Malingering, self-inflicted injuries and the prisoner-patient / Dan Healey -- Music in the recollections of political gulag prisoners / Friedrich Geiger -- Appearance and reality. Nazi Germany and gulag-memoirs / Felicitas Fischer von Weikersthal -- "Auf dem Weg nach vorne. Polithäftlinge sind wir". Politische Gefangenschaft, transnationale Netzwerke und Identitätskonstruktionen Andersdenkender in der Sowjetunion der 1960er bis 1980er Jahre / Manuela Putz -- The Solovetski Islands and Butovo as two "Russian golgathas". New martyrdom as a means to understand Soviet repression / Zuzanna Bogumil -- Erschöpft und usurpiert. Plädoyer für ein erweitertes Konzept von Gulag-Literatur / Anne Hartmann -- Gulag poetry. An almost unexplored field of research / Andrea Gullotta -- Rereading Varlam Shalamov's stories June and May. Four kinds of knowledge / Leona Toker -- Disconcerting concision. Laconism as principle of text organization -- Leo Lipski (Dzień i noc) and Lev Konson (Kratkie povesti) / Alfred Gall -- Fiktive Wirklichkeiten -- wirkliche Fiktionen. Gustaw Herling-Grudzińskis Inny świat und Włodzimierz Odojewskis Zabezpieczanie śladów / Łukasz Neca -- Document or fiction? Karlo Štajner and Danilo Kiš/ Renate Lachmann -- Visitors to the gulag. Soviet forced labor in contemporary Western fiction for adult and young readers / Karoline Thaidigsmann -- "From Russia with blood". Stalinist repression and the gulag in contemporary crime fiction / Nina A. Friess -- Die filmische Darstellung von Körperlichkeit in extremen Situationen / Oksana Bulgakowa -- Der Soldat als Befreier? Zur Stalinismus-Kritik in der Serie Poslednij boj majora Pugačeva / Irina Gradinari -- Russkij šanson. Geschichte(n) aus dem Gulag oder populäre Verklärung der Historie? / Inna Klause.

ISBN

9783825365349
3825365344
9783825375850 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2017285063
9783825365349

OCLC

948440417
SCSB-12280945

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Harvard Library