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  • Emerging Trends in Third-Generation Holocaust Literature

    by Luisa Banki, Katra Byram, Nathalie Debrauwere-Miller, Elke Heckner, Tess Scholfield-Peters, Naomi Sokoloff, Liat Steir-Livny, Dana Mihailescu, Sue Vice, Victoria Aarons1, Alan L. Berger2 ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Studies in Jewish Literature
    Emerging Trends in Third-Generation Holocaust Literature offers fresh approaches to understanding how grandchildren of Holocaust survivors and perpetrators treat their traumatic legacies. The contributors to this volume present a two-fold perspective: that the past continues to live in the lives of the third generation and that artistic responses to trauma assume a variety of genres, including ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Contested Selves

    Life Writing and German Culture

    by Jennifer Hansen-Glücklich, Katra Byram, Lydia H. Heiss, Maureen Burdock, Aylin Bademsoy, Laura Deiulio, Beth Ann Muellner, Julie Shoults, Matthias Müller, Kristin Eichhorn, Erika Quinn, Kathryn Sederberg ...
    In recent decades, life writing has exploded in popularity: memoirs that focus on traumatic experiences now constitute the largest growth sector in book publishing worldwide. But life writing is not only highly marketable; it also does important emotional, cultural, and political work. It is more available to amateurs and those without the cultural capital or the self-confidence to embrace more ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • Antisemitism in Film Comedy in Nazi Germany

    by Valerie Weinstein ...
    Series series Encounters: Explorations in Folklore and Ethnomusicology
    How party propagandists worked behind the scenes to create unspoken racist messages in the German culture—even in the most lighthearted of movies.Today many Germans look back fondly on 1930s film comedies, viewing them as a part of the Nazi era that was not tainted with antisemitism. Here, Valerie Weinstein scrutinizes these comic productions and demonstrates that film comedy, despite its innocent ... Read more

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  • Unlearning with Hannah Arendt

    by Marie Luise Knott ...
    Short-listed for the Tractatus Essay Prize, an examination of the innovative strategies Arendt used to achieve intellectual freedomAfter observing the trial of Adolf Eichmann, Hannah Arendt articulated her controversial concept of the “banality of evil,” thereby posing one of the most chilling and divisive moral questions of the twentieth century: How can genocidal acts be carried out by non ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to German Romanticism

    Edited by Nicholas Saul ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries saw an extraordinary flowering of arts and culture in Germany which produced many of the world's finest writers, artists, philosophers and composers. This volume, first published in 2004, offers students and specialists an authoritative introduction to that dazzling cultural phenomenon, now known collectively as German Romanticism. Individual ... Read more

    $35.29 USD

  • German-Jewish Popular Culture before the Holocaust

    Kafka's kitsch

    by David A. Brenner ...
    Series series Routledge Jewish Studies Series
    David A. Brenner examines how Jews in Central Europe developed one of the first "ethnic" or "minority" cultures in modernity. Not exclusively "German" or "Jewish," the experiences of German-speaking Jewry in the decades prior to the Third Reich and the Holocaust were also negotiated in encounters with popular culture, particularly the novel, the drama and mass media.Despite recent scholarship, the ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Legal Tender

    Love and Legitimacy in the East German Cultural Imagination

    by John Griffith Urang ...
    Series series Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought
    At first glance, romance seems an improbable angle from which to write a cultural history of the German Democratic Republic. By most accounts the GDR was among the most dour and disciplined of socialist states, so devoted to the rigors of Stalinist aesthetics that the notion of an East German romantic comedy was more likely to generate punch lines than lines at the box office. But in fact, as John ... Read more

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  • Nazi Germany and The Humanities

    How German Academics Embraced Nazism

    by Anson Rabinbach, Wolfgang Bialas ...
    MERGEFIELD AI_CopyIn 1933, Jews and, to a lesser extent, political opponents of the Nazis, suffered an unprecedented loss of positions and livelihood at Germany’s universities. With few exceptions, the academic elite welcomed and justified the acts of the Nazi regime, uttered no word of protest when their Jewish and liberal colleagues were dismissed, and did not stir when Jewish students were ... Read more

    $28.00 USD

  • Rereading East Germany

    The Literature and Film of the GDR

    Edited by Karen Leeder ...
    This volume is the first to address the culture of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) as a historical entity, but also to trace the afterlife of East Germany in the decades since the fall of the Berlin Wall. An international team of outstanding scholars offers essential and thought-provoking essays, combining a chronological and genre-based overview from the beginning of the GDR in 1949 to the ... Read more

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  • In the Shadow of the Holocaust

    Jewish-Communist Writers in East Germany

    by Thomas C. Fox ...
    This study investigates the negotiation of Jewish-German-Communist identity in post-Holocaust Germany, specifically East Germany. After an introduction to the political-historical context, it highlights the conflicted writings of six East German Jewish writers: Anna Seghers (1900-1983), Stefan Heym (1913-2001), Stephan Hermlin (1915-1997), Jurek Becker (1937-1997), Peter Edel (1921-1983), and Fred ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Framing the Fifties

    Cinema in a Divided Germany

    Edited by John Davidson, Sabine Hake ...
    Series Book 4 - Film Europa
    The demise of the New German Cinema and the return of popular cinema since the 1990s have led to a renewed interest in the postwar years and the complicated relationship between East and West German cinema in particular. A survey of the 1950s, as offered here for the first time, is therefore long overdue. Moving beyond the contempt for "Papa's Kino" and the nostalgia for the fifties found in much ... Read more

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  • Women in Weimar Fashion

    Discourses and Displays in German Culture, 1918-1933

    by Mila Ganeva ...
    In the Weimar Republic, fashion was not only manipulated by the various mass media -- film, magazines, advertising, photography, and popular literature -- but also emerged as a powerful medium for women's self-expression. Female writers and journalists, including Helen Grund, Irmgard Keun, Vicki Baum, Elsa Maria Bug, and numerous others engaged in a challenging, self-reflective commentary on ... Read more

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