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Author: Mererid Puw Davies Publisher: Igrs, University of London ISBN: 9780854572519 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 296
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The 1960s protest movements marked an astonishing moment for West Germany. They developed a political critique, but are above all distinctive for their overwhelming emphasis on culture and the symbolic. In particular, reading and writing had unique prestige for protesters, who produced an extraordinary textual culture which was by turns polemical, witty, provocative, reflective and offensive. The avant-garde roots of anti-authoritarianism are often as palpable within it as a debt to high literature; but due to its sometimes (apparently) vehemently anti-literary tone, it is frequently overlooked by traditional criticism. This volume outlines an anti-authoritarian poetics by presenting close readings of some emblematic texts, many of them forgotten, others better known. The study embeds its analyses in historical, cultural, political and aesthetic contexts, in order to illuminate some representative moments and preoccupations in protest writing, and it argues that this prolific textual culture exists in a complex tension between utopian impulses and the shadows of the past.
Author: Mererid Puw Davies Publisher: Igrs, University of London ISBN: 9780854572519 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 296
Book Description
The 1960s protest movements marked an astonishing moment for West Germany. They developed a political critique, but are above all distinctive for their overwhelming emphasis on culture and the symbolic. In particular, reading and writing had unique prestige for protesters, who produced an extraordinary textual culture which was by turns polemical, witty, provocative, reflective and offensive. The avant-garde roots of anti-authoritarianism are often as palpable within it as a debt to high literature; but due to its sometimes (apparently) vehemently anti-literary tone, it is frequently overlooked by traditional criticism. This volume outlines an anti-authoritarian poetics by presenting close readings of some emblematic texts, many of them forgotten, others better known. The study embeds its analyses in historical, cultural, political and aesthetic contexts, in order to illuminate some representative moments and preoccupations in protest writing, and it argues that this prolific textual culture exists in a complex tension between utopian impulses and the shadows of the past.
Author: Mererid Puw Davies Publisher: UCL Press ISBN: 1800085338 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 248
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In the 1960s and 1970s in the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), or West Germany, newspaper readers and television viewers were appalled by terrible images of fires burning half a world away. The Vietnam War was a decisive catalyst for the era’s wider protest movements and gave rise to an ardent anti-war discourse. This discourse privileged writing in many forms. Within it, poetry and poetic writing were key; and because coverage of the conflict in Vietnam often focused on spectacular, destructive conflagrations ignited by hi-tech machines of war, their dominant trope was fire. Hundreds of poems and related writings about Vietnam circulated in the FRG, yet they are almost entirely forgotten today. Poetic Writing and the Vietnam War in West Germany uncovers and explores some of this rich production in order to present a new history of engaged poetic writing in the FRG in the 1960s and 1970s, and to draw out distinctive characteristics of wider protest culture. In doing so, it makes the case for attending to marginal, non-canonical or neglected literary and cultural forms, and for critical thinking about why they might, over time, have been obscured. This book offers, too, a case study for reflection on the representation of war, on ways in which German oppositional culture could imagine its others, and the ways in which other voices could speak to it in turn, and on the relationship of poetry to the historical world.
Author: Susanne Rinner Publisher: Berghahn Books ISBN: 0857457551 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 180
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Through a close reading of novels by Ulrike Kolb, Irmtraud Morgner, Emine Sevgi Özdamar, Bernhard Schlink, Peter Schneider, and Uwe Timm, this book traces the cultural memory of the 1960s student movement in German fiction, revealing layers of remembering and forgetting that go beyond conventional boundaries of time and space. These novels engage this contestation by constructing a palimpsest of memories that reshape readers’ understanding of the 1960s with respect to the end of the Cold War, the legacy of the Third Reich, and the Holocaust. Topographically, these novels refute assertions that East Germans were isolated from the political upheaval that took place in the late 1960s and 1970s. Through their aesthetic appropriations and subversions, these multicultural contributions challenge conventional understandings of German identity and at the same time lay down claims of belonging within a German society that is more openly diverse than ever before.
Author: Ingo Cornils Publisher: Boydell & Brewer ISBN: 1571139540 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 330
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Frontcover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1: Heroes and Martyrs -- 2: Chroniclers and Interpreters -- 3: Critics and Renegades -- 4: Tale Spinners and Poets -- 5: Women of the Revolution -- 6: "1968" and the Media -- 7: "1968" and the Arts -- 8: Zaungäste -- 9: Not Dark Yet: The 68ers at Seventy -- 10: Romantic Relapse or Modern Myth? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Author: Anna Von der Goltz Publisher: ISBN: 9780192589347 Category : Christian democracy Languages : en Pages :
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This is a history of 1968 written from a new perspective-that of center-right student activists in West Germany. Based on oral history interviews and new archival sources, it examines the ideas, experiences and repertoires of center-right students in this age of protest.
Author: Mererid Puw Davies Publisher: ISBN: 9781787352889 Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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An examination of the largely forgotten anti-war writing from West Germany spurred by the Vietnam War. Though the Vietnam War did not directly involve West Germany, it was nonetheless a decisive catalyst for the era's wider protest movements in that country, and it gave rise to an ardent anti-war discourse. Poetry and poetic writing were key to anti-war work. Hundreds of poems and related writings about Vietnam circulated in West Germany, yet they are almost entirely forgotten today. Poetic Writing and the Vietnam War in West Germany uncovers and explores some of that rich artistic production in order to present a new history of engaged poetic writing in West Germany in the 1960s and 1970s and to draw out distinctive characteristics of wider protest culture. In doing so, it makes the case for attending to marginal, non-canonical, or neglected literary and cultural forms, and for critical thinking about why they might, over time, have been obscured. The book also offers a case study for reflection on the representation of war, on ways in which German oppositional culture could imagine its others, and on the relationship of poetry to the historical world.
Author: Martin Klimke Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 0691152462 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 366
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Using previously classified documents and original interviews, The Other Alliance examines the channels of cooperation between American and West German student movements throughout the 1960s and early 1970s, and the reactions these relationships provoked from the U.S. government. Revising the standard narratives of American and West German social mobilization, Martin Klimke demonstrates the strong transnational connections between New Left groups on both sides of the Atlantic. Klimke shows that the cold war partnership of the American and German governments was mirrored by a coalition of rebelling counterelites, whose common political origins and opposition to the Vietnam War played a vital role in generating dissent in the United States and Europe. American protest techniques such as the "sit-in" or "teach-in" became crucial components of the main organization driving student activism in West Germany--the German Socialist Student League--and motivated American and German student activists to construct networks against global imperialism. Klimke traces the impact that Black Power and Germany's unresolved National Socialist past had on the German student movement; he investigates how U.S. government agencies, such as the State Department's Interagency Youth Committee, advised American policymakers on confrontations with student unrest abroad; and he highlights the challenges student protesters posed to cold war alliances. Exploring the catalysts of cross-pollination between student protest movements on two continents, The Other Alliance is a pioneering work of transnational history.
Author: Katharina Karcher Publisher: Berghahn Books ISBN: 1785335359 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 178
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Few figures in modern German history are as central to the public memory of radical protest than Ulrike Meinhof, but she was only the most prominent of the countless German women—and militant male feminists—who supported and joined in revolutionary actions from the 1960s onward. Sisters in Arms gives a bracing account of how feminist ideas were enacted by West German leftist organizations from the infamous Red Army Faction to less well-known groups such as the Red Zora. It analyzes their confrontational and violent tactics in challenging the abortion ban, opposing violence against women, and campaigning for solidarity with Third World women workers. Though these groups often diverged ideologically and tactically, they all demonstrated the potency of militant feminism within postwar protest movements.
Author: Frederique Chantal Hanreck Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 84
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This dissertation describes the history and progress of the peace movement in West Germany. From its beginnings in the opposition to German rearmament in the 1950s, through to the student protest movement in the 1960s, the West German peace movement gathered support from all different sections of society. Christian and ecological intrests joined the protest against nuclear weapons, and by the late 1970s an enormous network was already in place, ready to be mobilised. The catalyst which served to jolt the slumbering movement into life was NATO's 1979 Dual Track decision, which destroyed detente and ushered in a new cold war. For West Germans, who had worked especially hard to promote East-West relations, the planned deployment of Cruise and Pershing II was particularly traumatic. When the Bundestag decided, despite the largest demonstrations in the history of the federal Republic (the 'Hot Autumn'), to allow those plans to go ahead in November 1983, the peace movement lost the one point on which all its component parts could agree the minimum consensus to reject Cruise and Pershing II. As a people with profound respect for the law, West Germans were faced with an awful dilemma. Opposition to deployment now meant that the peace movement had become a resistance movement, and its actions would border on illegality. Many people were not prepared to walk that tightrope. However, there were also thousands of committed activists who saw resistance as an historic duty, as it had been their parents' duty to resist the Nazis, a duty left manifestly unfulfilled. This dissertation will show which groups are in the peace movement, their histories, dilemmas and programmes, and it also hopes to provide some indication of where the movement will go from here. The main purpose in writing it was to give members of the British peace movement an outline of their counterparts in West Germany which has hitherto been unavailable in the English language, and to provide them with the necesary data to be able to understand and make contact with this important mass movement, without whom all the efforts of the British movement are in vain.
Author: Quinn Slobodian Publisher: Duke University Press ISBN: 0822351846 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 318
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Foreign Front describes the activism that took place in West Germany in the 1960s when more than 10,000 students from Asia, Latin America, and Africa were enrolled in universities there. They served as a spark for local West German students to mobilize and protest the injustices that were occurring wordwide.
Author: Mererid Puw Davies
Author: Mererid Puw Davies
Author: Mererid Puw Davies
Author: Susanne Rinner
Author: Ingo Cornils
Author: Anna Von der Goltz
Author: Mererid Puw Davies
Author: Martin Klimke
Author: Katharina Karcher
Author: Frederique Chantal Hanreck
Author: Quinn Slobodian