Imagining Mass Dictatorships [electronic resource] : The Individual and the Masses in Literature and Cinema /
Schoenhals, M.editor.
Sarsenov, K.editor.
This volume in the series Mass Dictatorship in the Twentieth Century series 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.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine 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.
This volume in the series Mass Dictatorship in the Twentieth Century series 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.
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