Baader-Meinhof and the Novel [electronic resource] : Narratives of the Nation / Fantasies of the Revolution, 1970-2010 /
Preece, J.author.
The Baader-Meinhof Group and other violent underground organizations have provided material to many novels by leading German and international writers. This book is the first to examine this rich literary corpus, treating it as a political unconscious which expresses submerged anxieties and moral blind-spots in Europe's most powerful country.
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations and Special Terms; A Note on Translation and Citation; Preface; A Brief History; Introduction: The Baader-Meinhof Myth Machine; One Avoiding the Subject: Six Tropes in 68er Fiction; Two From Stechlin to Stammheim: F. C. Delius as Pioneer; Three Retelling the Classics: Baader-Meinhof and the German Literary Canon; Four Terrorism and the German Popular Imaginary: Conspiracies and Counterfactuals; Five Baader-Meinhof Translated: From Die Hard to al-Qaeda; Six RAF Revivalism in the 2000s; Conclusions; Notes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
The Baader-Meinhof Group and other violent underground organizations have provided material to many novels by leading German and international writers. This book is the first to examine this rich literary corpus, treating it as a political unconscious which expresses submerged anxieties and moral blind-spots in Europe's most powerful country.
Rote Armee Fraktion
Europe, Central-History.
Literature, Modern-20th century.
Literature.
Fiction.
Europe-History.
Literature-History and criticism.
History of Germany and Central Europe.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Literature, general.
Fiction.
European History.
Literary History.