Present tensions : European writers on overcoming dictatorships / Kristina Kaiserova, Gert Rohrborn (eds.).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kaiserová, Kristina, 1956-

Röhrborn, Gert.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Authors, European--20th century--Biography.

Authors, European.

Authors, European--Political and social views.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (345 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Central European University Press in conjunction with University of Jan Evangelista Purkyne Usti nad Labem FF, Department for Slavic-German Studies, and Dresden Technical University Chair for European Studies, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

An intersection of literary works on the question of how dictatorships are overcome, which emerged from a transnational project convening acclaimed writers. The generations, European countries of origin and artistic directions represented are both an advantage and a challenge reflected by this anthology. A considerable variety of motivations drove participants: putting into words a contemporary biography of persecution, a descendant's feeling of personal historical responsibility, or the artistic curiosity of the "outsider". The anthology is dedicated to the imaginative power of literature, and to Central Eastern and South Eastern Europe in particular. The formerly multicultural setting of these countries suffered the most from European dictatorships and their insufficiently processed legacies. The cultural transfer exhibited here will help reduce prejudices and promote new forms of understanding with Western Europe: it aims to further a diversified but common European culture.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of Contents

Introduction

“The generation affected will have to see it through.” Literary paths out of dictatorship

On the role of language in commemorating, working through and overcoming dictatorship

Sediments

Lesen in der Diktatur – Schreiben in der Diktatur. Eine persönliche Spurensuche

Reading and writing under dictatorships. A personal retracing

Report on my death

Banane verzi puse la copt pe dulapuri

Voids

Jak to bylo?

Odznak

Il cielo che prima non c’era

Time travels

Rock a Diktatura. Příspěvek k roli hudby v komunistickém režimu bývalého Československa

Rock and dictatorship. The role of music in the communist regime in Czechoslovakia

Alles Echos. Texte und Gedichte

Verniszázs

Che Guevara

Biographies

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-003-72147-8

615-5211-62-0

1-283-24810-7

9786613248107

1-4416-0394-8

9781003721475

OCLC:

922997880