Screen LibraryWriters and politics in Germany, 1945-2008
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Camden House,
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| Publisher Address: | Rochester, N.Y. |
| Publication Dates: | c2009. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture |
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| Carrier Form: | x, 239 p.: ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9781571134011 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1571134018 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| Index Number: | I516 |
| CLC: | I516.065 |
| Call Number: | I516.065/P245 |
| Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-227) and index. The aftermath of war and the new beginning -- The 1950s : the deepening division -- The 1960s: taking sides -- A West German interlude : writers and politics at the time of the student movement -- The 1970s : writers on the defensive -- The 1980s : on the threshold -- Intermezzo : writers and the unification process -- Segue : political and literary developments since Unification -- East and West -- New views on the past -- A swing to the Right? "George Orwell said that all writing is political; but the writers of some nations and some periods are more political than others. German writers after 1945 have exemplified such heightened politicization, and this book considers their contribution to the democratic development of Germany by looking principally at their directly political, non-fictional writings. It pays particular attention to writers and the student movement of the 1960s and '70s, when some proclaimed the death of literature and called for a turn to direct political action. Yet writers in both parts of Germany gradually came to identify with their respective states, even if the idea of one Germany never entirely disappeared. The unification of 1989-1990, in which this idea astonishingly became reality, posed a major (and some would say unmet) challenge to writers in both East and West. |