Violence Elsewhere 1
Camden House Inc (Verlag)
978-1-64014-114-8 (ISBN)
Germany's twentieth-century history has made imagining and representing violence in German culture challenging, meaning that it can be difficult to locate and explore critically the significance of violence in and for the postwar German states. This volume approaches that challenge through critical analysis of "violence elsewhere," that is, constructions of violence in distant, imagined, or temporally distinct times and places. Such representations have offered a stage on which to imagine violence. Moreover, German representations of "violence elsewhere" are simultaneously images of Germany itself, revealing something about otherwise submerged meanings and functions of violence in German culture.
The essays in this volume explore selected, emblematic works from East, West, and, later, unified Germany, which imagine violence in, for example, Latin America, Vietnam, Cambodia, the USA, and the Middle East, as well as in the respective "other" German state and in the German past. Drawing on fields including cultural, literary, film, visual, and gender studies, it introduces multidisciplinary theoretical approaches to the topic of violence elsewhere that may be transferable beyond German studies too. As such, the volume allows us to reflect more broadly on relationships between violence, culture, community, and the creation of identities, and to look beyond binary notions of "here" and "elsewhere," "self" and "other." It thus expands our understanding of what German culture is and could be.
Edited by Clare Bielby and Mererid Puw Davies. Contributors: Seán Allan, Martin Brady, Evelien Geerts, Katharina Karcher, J.J. Long, Ernest Schonfield, and Katherine Stone.
Chapter 8, "Problematizing Political Violence in the Federal Republic of Germany: A Hauntological Analysis of the NSU Terror and a Hyper-Exceptionalized "9/11" is available as Open Access under the Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND. The open access version of this publication was funded by the European Research Council.
This book is available as Open Access under the Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND.
CLARE BIELBY is Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Women's Studies at the University of York, UK. MERERID PUW DAVIES is Professor of German Studies at University College London, UK. CLARE BIELBY is Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Women's Studies at the University of York, UK. MERERID PUW DAVIES is Professor of German Studies at University College London, UK. SEÁN ALLAN is Professor of German at the University of St Andrews. He studied at Emmanuel College, Cambridge and at the Humboldt Universität in what was then East Berlin. From 2001-2016 he worked at the University of Warwick before moving to St Andrews in 2016 as Professor of German. His main research areas regard the culture of the European Enlightenment, interdisciplinary approaches to the mediation of music and the visual arts, as well as translation and translation studies. He is the author of The Plays of Heinrich von Kleist: Ideals and Illusions (1996) and The Stories of Heinrich von Kleist: Fictions of Security (Camden House, 2001). He is the co-editor of a special edition of German Life and Letters, entitled Heinrich von Kleist: Performance and Performativity (2011); the co-editor of the volumes Kleist, Education and Violence: The Transformation of Ethics and Aesthetics and Konstruktive und destruktive Funktionen von Gewalt im Werk Heinrich von Kleists (2012), and Re-Imagining DEFA: East German Cinema in its National and Transnational Contexts (2016); and the co-author of the monograph Unverhoffte Wirkungen: Erziehung und Gewalt im Werk Heinrich von Kleists (2014). His most recent book, Screening Art: Modernism and the Socialist Imaginary in East German Cinema (2019), investigates questions of intermediality and spans not only film, but also literature, music, and the visual arts in post-war cinema. Katherine Stone is an Associate Professor in German Studies at the University of Warwick
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction - Clare Bielby and Mererid Puw Davies
1. Projecting Violence Elsewhere: Remembering Conflict-Related Sexual Violence in Cold War Germany - Katherine Stone
2. Watching Violence Elsewhere: Louis Malle's Viva Maria! in 1960s West Germany - Mererid Puw Davies
3. Images as Weapons: DEFA, Studio H&S, and the Global Cold War - Seán Allan
4. KriegsErklärung (Declaration of War): Volker Braun's Cold War Camera - J. J. Long
5. The Vietnam Veteran in Anna Seghers's Steinzeit (Stone Age, 1975) - Ernest Schonfield
6. "So It Has to Be Said: Hammer and Sickle Here, Hammer and Sickle There": Heynowski-Scheumann's Die Angkar (1981) and the Problem of Khmer Rouge Violence for the GDR - Martin Brady
7. Narrating Violent Agency Elsewhere in Inge Viett's Nie war ich furchtloser (Never Was I More Fearless, 1996) - Clare Bielby
8. Problematizing Political Violence in the Federal Republic of Germany: A Hauntological Analysis of the NSU Terror and a Hyper-Exceptionalized "9/11" - Katharina Karcher and Evelien Geerts
Selected Bibliography
Notes on the Contributors
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 29.02.2024 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture |
| Co-Autor | Dr Katharina Karcher, Evelien Geerts, Dr Clare Bielby |
| Zusatzinfo | 12 b/w illus. |
| Verlagsort | Columbia, MD |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 464 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-64014-114-6 / 1640141146 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-64014-114-8 / 9781640141148 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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