Author: Paul GomaPublisher:
ISBN: 9782010083099
Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 295
Book Description
Les chiens de mort, ou, La passion selon Pitești
Author: Paul GomaPublisher:
ISBN: 9782010083099
Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 295
Book Description
The Conscience of Humankind
Author: International Comparative Literature Association. CongressPublisher: Rodopi
ISBN: 9789042004207
Category : Apartheid in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
The traumatic experiences of persecution and genocide have changed traditional views of literature. The discussion of historical truth versus aesthetic autonomy takes an unexpected turn when confronted with the experiences of the victims of the Holocaust, the Gulag Archipelago, the Cultural Revolution, Apartheid and other crimes against humanity. The question is whether - and, if so, to what extent - literary imagination may depart from historical truth. In general, the first reactions to traumatic historical experiences are autobiographical statements, written by witnesses of the events. However, the second and third generations, the sons and daughters of the victims as well as of the victimizers, tend to free themselves from this generic restriction and claim their own way of remembering the history of their parents and grandparents. They explore their own limits of representation, and feel free to use a variety of genres; they turn to either realist or postmodernist, ironic or grotesque modes of writing.
The Columbia Guide to the Literatures of Eastern Europe Since 1945
Author: Harold B. SegelPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231114042
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 692
Book Description
The Iron Curtain concealed from western eyes a vital group of national and regional writers. Marked by not only geographical proximity but also by the shared experience of communism and its collapse, the countries of Eastern Europe--Poland, Hungary, Albania, Romania, Bulgaria, and the former states of Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, and East Germany--share literatures that reveal many common themes when examined together. Compiled by a leading scholar, the guide includes an overview of literary trends in historical context; a listing of some 700 authors by country; and an A-to-Z section of articles on the most influential writers.
Remembering Communism
Author: Maria N. TodorovaPublisher: Central European University Press
ISBN: 9633860326
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
Remembering Communism examines the formation and transformation of the memory of communism in the post-communist period. The majority of the articles focus on memory practices in the post-Stalinist era in Bulgaria and Romania, with occasional references to the cases of Poland and the GDR. Based on an interdisciplinary approach, including history, anthropology, cultural studies and sociology, the volume examines the mechanisms and processes that influence, determine and mint the private and public memory of communism in the post-1989 era. The common denominator to all essays is the emphasis on the process of remembering in the present, and the modalities by means of which the present perspective shapes processes of remembering, including practices of commemoration and representation of the past. The volume deals with eight major thematic blocks revisiting specific practices in communism such as popular culture and everyday life, childhood, labor, the secret police, and the perception of “the system”.
The Exile and Return of Writers from East-Central Europe
Author: John NeubauerPublisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110217740
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 641
Book Description
This is the first comparative study of literature written by writers who fled from East-Central Europe during the twentieth century. It includes not only interpretations of individual lives and literary works, but also studies of the most important literary journals, publishers, radio programs, and other aspects of exile literary cultures. The theoretical part of introduction distinguishes between exiles, émigrés, and expatriates, while the historical part surveys the pre-twentieth-century exile traditions and provides an overview of the exilic events between 1919 and 1995; one section is devoted to exile cultures in Paris, London, and New York, as well as in Moscow, Madrid, Toronto, Buenos Aires and other cities. The studies focus on the factional divisions within each national exile culture and on the relationship between the various exiled national cultures among each other. They also investigate the relation of each exile national culture to the culture of its host country. Individual essays are devoted to Witold Gombrowicz, Paul Goma, Milan Kundera, Monica Lovincescu, Miloš Crnjanski, Herta Müller, and to the “internal exile” of Imre Kertész. Special attention is devoted to the new forms of exile that emerged during the ex-Yugoslav wars, and to the problems of “homecoming” of exiled texts and writers.
Global Cold War Literature
Author: Andrew HammondPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136511296
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
In countries worldwide, the Cold War dominated politics, society and culture during the second half of the twentieth century. Global Cold War Literatures offers a unique look at the multiple ways in which writers from Asia, Africa, Europe and North and South America addressed the military conflicts, revolutions, propaganda wars and ideological debates of the era. While including essays on western European and North American literature, the volume views First World writing, not as central to the period, but as part of an international discussion of Cold War realities in which the most interesting contributions often came from marginal or subordinate cultures. To this end, there is an emphasis on the literatures of the Second and Third Worlds, including essays on Latin American poetry, Soviet travel writing, Chinese autobiography, African theatre, North Korean literature, Cuban and eastern European fiction, and Middle Eastern fiction and poetry. With the post-Cold War era still in a condition of emergence, it is essential that we look back to the 1945-89 period to understand the political and cultural forces that shaped the modern world. The volume’s analysis of those forces and its focus on many of the ‘hot spots’ – Afghanistan, Iran, North Korea – that define the contemporary ‘war on terror’, make this an essential resources for those working in Postcolonial, American and English Literatures, as well as in History, Comparative Literature, European Studies and Cultural Studies. Global Cold War Literatures is a suitable companion volume to Hammond's Cold War Literature: Writing the Global Conflict, also available from Routledge.
Human Rights and Political Dissent in Central Europe
Author: Jakub TyszkiewiczPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000479846
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
This volume examines to what extent the positive atmosphere created by the Helsinki Accords contributed to the change in political circumstances seen in the countries of Central Europe, under Soviet domination. It focuses in particular on - firstly - a consequent new impetus to bolster human rights in international politics, as Western democracies - especially the US - integrated human rights concerns into its foreign policy relations with Soviet Bloc countries and - secondly – how this Western embrace of human rights seemed to create new incentives for increased dissident activity in Central and Eastern Europe and from 1976 onward. Finally, the book reminds us of the significant role of the Helsinki Accords in developing democratic practices in Eastern European societies under Soviet domination in 1975-1989 and in creating the conditions for the peaceful transition to democratic government in the years that followed. This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of the history of communism, post-Soviet, Russian, and central and East European politics, the history of human rights, and democratization.
Subject Catalog
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1000
Book Description
L’est nell’ovest
Author: Boschiero, ManuelPublisher: EMIL
ISBN: 8866802662
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : it
Pages : 296
Book Description
Nelle quasi tre decadi trascorse dal crollo del Muro di Berlino le relazioni tra est e ovest dell’Europa hanno subito cambiamenti profondi. L’apertura delle vecchie frontiere e il proseguimento del processo d’integrazione europea che ha seguito la fine della Guerra fredda e della divisione ideologica ha riportato vigorosamente l’est al centro della sfera d’interesse occidentale, ridefinendo le stesse categorie di est e ovest e dando vita a nuove topografie culturali.L’obiettivo comune dei contributi raccolti nel volume L’est nell’ovest è quello d’indagare i cambiamenti e le continuità di significato dello sguardo occidentale verso l’est, e di quello orientale verso l’ovest, attraverso l’analisi delle rappresentazioni letterarie all’interno dei diversi discorsi nazionali e transnazionali. Negli ultimi anni l’intensificazione degli scambi tra est e ovest hanno avuto forti ripercussioni in ambito culturale, nel teatro, nel cinema, nelle arti visive, ma anche e soprattutto nella letteratura, dando vita a nuovi stili e modalità di espressione e contribuendo a ridefinire le usuali distinzioni tra prospettiva interna ed esterna, tra realtà, stereotipo e immaginazione.
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