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Civil Society and Memory in Postwar Germany
This book analyzes postwar Germany to show how social movements shape public memory and influence democratization through cooperation and conflict with government.
Civil Society and Dictatorship in Modern German History
A consideration of twentieth-century German social history and the legacies of the two dictatorships
Transitional Justice in Unified Korea
How will a unified Korea respond to the Kim regime's crimes against humanity? Will North and South Korea be able to reconcile their differences after being divided for so long? Will China, the US, Japan, Russia, and U.N. drive the process? This book examines the challenges associated with Korean unification and human rights accountability.
Restitution and Memory
The myriad debates on restitution and memory, which have been going on in Europe for decades, indicate that World War II never ended. It is still very much with us, paradoxically re-invoked by the events of 1989/90 and the expansion of Europe to the east in the aftermath of the collapse of communism and economic globalization. The growing privatization and reprivatization in Eastern Europe revive pre-war memories that lay buried under the blanket of collectivization and nationalization of property after 1945. World War II did not only result in the death and destruction on a large scale but also in an a far-reaching revolution of existing property relations. This volume offers an assessment of the problematic of restitution and its close interconnection with the discourses of memory that have recently emerged.
Wizards and Words
This work presents an outline of the Old Norse vocabulary associated with magic and its practicioners. The research is focused on the individual words’ evaluative aspect and on their function within the texts, as well as on the narrative roles of magic as a literary motif and as a cultural concept. The literary motif of magic plays a significant role as a narrative device that enables the construction of multiple layers of meaning in the texts. The cultural concept of magic contributes to the conceptualization of various social and psychological aspects, such as the transformations of political power, gender roles, the transgression of norms, irrational impulses, and diverse forms of otherness.
Bad Boys and Wicked Women
This volume assembles 13 essays as the result of a workshop for international doctoral and post-doctoral researchers in Old Norse studies, which was held at the Institute for Nordic Philology at LMU in Munich in December 2015. The contributions’ focus lies on different aspects of ›bad‹ or ›evil‹ characters in saga literature, and they give testimony to the broad literary variety such figures display in Old Norse texts. The “Antagonists and Troublemakers in Old Norse Literature” are here explored in their diversity, ranging from their literary psychology to their characteristics which often challenge gender norms. The contributions discuss the narrative strategies of presenting these characters to the audience, both positively and negatively. Furthermore, they analyse how the central paradox of evil and its dependence on context is realised in various ways in Old Norse literature.
"Heute kann ich das ja sagen"
Lange Jahre konnten die Insassen sowjetischer Speziallager nicht uber ihre Haftzeit sprechen. Die Weiternutzung von Konzentrationslagern wie Buchenwald oder Sachsenhausen nach 1945 als Lager der russischen Besatzungsmacht und der Tod von mehr als 40.000 Insassen waren in der DDR ein Tabuthema. In diesem Buch werden die individuellen Erinnerungen von Betroffenen an die Lagerzeit erstmals umfassend erfragt und analysiert: Wie gestaltete sich das Zusammenleben der unterschiedlichen Haftlingsgruppen, die der Verstrickung in den Nationalsozialismus oder antisowjetischer Propaganda beschuldigt wurden, unter den zeitweise lebensbedrohlichen Bedingungen des Lageralltags? Spielten Solidaritat und Mitmenschlichkeit in diesem Kampf ums Uberleben eine Rolle? Wie konnten sich die Betroffenen in die west- bzw. ostdeutsche Nachkriegsgesellschaft integrieren? Das Buch ruckt Dimensionen des personlichen und gesellschaftlichen Umgangs mit Schuld und Unrechtserfahrungen im Kontext wechselnder politischer Konjunkturen deutlich in den Vordergrund.
The Media of Testimony
The Media of Testimony explores testimony relating to the Stasi in different cultural forms: autobiographical writing, memorial museums and documentary film. Combining theoretical models from diverse disciplines, it presents a new approach to the study of testimony, memory and mediation.
