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020 $a9781137330680 (hardback)
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050 00 $aPN56.D49$bI53 2013
082 00 $a809/.933582$223
084 $aHIS037000$aHIS037070$aHIS054000$aPOL042030$2bisacsh
245 00 $aImagining Mass Dictatorships :$bThe Individual and the Masses in Literature and Cinema /$cedited by Michael Schoenhals and Karin Sarsenov.
264 1 $aNew York :$bPalgrave Macmillan,$c2013.
300 $axi, 316 p. :$bill. ;$c23 cm.
490 0 $aMass Dictatorship in the Twentieth Century
520 $a"This volume in the series 'Mass Dictatorship in the Twentieth Century' sees twelve Swedish, Korean and Japanese scholars, theorists, and historians of fiction and non-fiction probe the literary subject of life in 20th century mass dictatorships. Generously defined, the 'literary' in this context covers a wide spectrum of narrative forms, ranging from the commercial television documentary to popular crime fiction, and from digitally restored amateur film on DVD to the Nobel Prize winning novel. It deals with mass dictatorship regimes as far apart as Nazi Germany, Park Chung-hee's South Korea, Stalinist Russia, post-war Hungary, Mao Zedong's China, apartheid's South Africa, and Ceausescu's Romania. The interplay of analytical ideas and the transnational perspectives that this volume brings add a new dimension to our understanding of traumatic events - 'dark chapters' - in 20th century history. By focusing the immense role of imagination within a cultural discourse otherwise dominated by irrefutable facts such as the existence of Holocaust and Gulag, this volume opens new ways of thinking perceptively about trauma, power and self"--$cProvided by publisher.
500 $aIncludes index.
505 8 $aMachine generated contents note: -- List of illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- 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 Muller; Anamaria Dutceac Segesten -- 3. Challenging the 'Holocaust-reflex': Imre Kerte;sz'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?; Bjorn Larsson -- 7. Politics, Imagination and Everyday Life in Nadine Gordimer's The Pickup; Seonjoo Park -- 8. Innocence by Association? Everyday Nazism on DVD; Mats Johansson -- 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.
650 0 $aDictatorship in literature.
650 0 $aLiterature and society.
650 0 $aLiterature, Modern$y20th century$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aFiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism.
650 7 $aHISTORY / World.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aHISTORY / Modern / 20th Century.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aHISTORY / Social History.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Fascism & Totalitarianism.$2bisacsh
700 1 $aSchoenhals, Michael,$eeditor of compilation.
700 1 $aSarsenov, Karin,$eeditor of compilation.
856 42 $3Cover image$uhttp://www.netread.com/jcusers2/bk1388/680/9781137330680/image/lgcover.9781137330680.jpg