Dislocation and reorientation : exile, division, and the end of communism in German culture and politics : in honour of Ian Wallace / edited by Axel Goodbody, Pól Ó Dochartaigh, Dennis Tate.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Goodbody, Axel, 1950-

Ó Dochartaigh, Pól.

Tate, Dennis.

Series:

German Monitor 71.

German monitor ; no. 71

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communism--Germany (East)--History.

Communism.

German literature--Germany (East)--History and criticism.

German literature.

Exiles' writings, German--20th century.

Exiles' writings, German.

Germany--History--20th century.

Germany.

Germany (East)--History.

Germany (East).

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (330 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Dislocation and the need for radical reorientation are central experiences in 20th-century German history. Much of German culture has also consisted of reflections on and responses to the historical caesurae of 1933, 1945 and 1989-90, and the massive political, social and economic changes that accompanied them. In the first instance, dislocation and reorientation are to be understood in the physical sense, id est the loss of their homes in Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia by Jewish and Communist émigrés after 1933, by Germans in Eastern Europe after 1945, and by disaffected individuals leaving the GDR for the West between 1949 and 1989. But they are also ideological, social and cultural experiences. This volume seeks to explore the parallels and differences between the impact on these groups of their sense of loss and their struggle to establish new identities after major upheavals. What their diverse experiences have in common is the sense of social and intellectual dislocation, even amongst those whose physical location did not change for long periods of time. Drawing on the ideas of various social and cultural theorists, and adopting a variety of approaches, our contributors examine how not only dislocation but also reorientation has been articulated, both in political discourse and across the cultural spectrum from fiction to life writing, from poetry to film.

Contents:

Preliminary material / Editors Dislocation and Reorientation

Aus: Machwerk oder Das Schichtbuch des Flick von Lauchhammer / Volker Braun

A polso teso. Portrait der Poesie Volker Brauns / Anna Chiarloni

Political dislocation and poetic reorientation in Volker Braun’s Bodenloser Satz / Axel Goodbody

‘Totentänze’: Volker Braun’s late poems – Postscripts on the end of utopia / Karen Leeder

Überlegungen zu Volker Brauns Rede zur Verleihung des Schiller-Gedächtnispreises 1992: ‘Ist das unser Himmel? Ist das unsre Hölle?’ / Gerd Labroisse

Die deutschsprachige Exilpresse und das Attentat des 20. Juli 1944 / Daniel Azuélos

‘The fog of peace and war’1: German exiles in postcolonial Anglophone writing / Geoffrey V. Davis

Odradek – ein Bewohner des Dritten Raums. Mit Franz Kafka unterwegs zu transkulturellen Lektüren / Wolfgang Emmerich

Kipling and others: Literary allusions in Anna Seghers’s ‘Die schönsten Sagen vom Räuber Woynok’1 / Helen Fehervary

Stefan Heym’s exile poetry as the foundation for his later fiction / Peter Hutchinson

Kurt Schwitters in Ambleside1 / Hamish Ritchie

Ein Fallbeispiel zur Rückkehrproblematik aus dem Exil – Ernst Lewy (1881-1966) / Gisela Holfter

Résistance, Restauration und deutsch-jüdische West-Remigranten: Alfred Kantorowiczs Schauspiel Die Verbündeten in der DDR / Deborah Vietor-Engländer

German expellees in the SBZ/GDR and the Oder-Neisse ‘peace border’1 / Ian Connor

Dislocation and reorientation in the Sorbian community (1945-2008) / Peter Barker

Von der Fröhlichkeit im Schrecken: Fred Wander’s celebration of dislocation / Dennis Tate

A people’s game: Football in the German Democratic Republic / Mike Dennis

Heimatlos zu Hause: Bloch, Žižek and the dislocated Heimat / Peter Thompson

Ausreisen und Ausflüge – Geschichten aus dem letzten Jahr der DDR / Dieter Segert

Retold lives: East German autobiography after East Germany / Roger Woods

Verlust der Mitte: Wolf Biermanns Abnabelung von seinem Topos Berlin / Gerrit-Jan Berendse

Ingo Schulze’s Handy. Thirteen Tales in the Old Style: Another look at East(ern) Germanness and identity formation / Christine Cosentino

‘Home soured home?’ Dislocation as a motif in the works of Martin Walser / Stuart Parkes

Without a name: Kurt Drawert and the dislocated self / Colin B. Grant

Westernisation, Europeanisation, and civil society: Has Thomas Mann’s vision of a European Germany come true? / Gert-Joachim Glaeßner

Ian Wallace: List of Publications / Editors Dislocation and Reorientation

Notes on Contributors / Editors Dislocation and Reorientation.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

90-420-3216-2

OCLC:

697642179

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789042032163 DOI