The temptation of despair : tales of the 1940s /

The Temptation of Despair is a book about coming to terms with the mid-1940s, the contradictory emotions of a defeated people--sorrow and anger, guilt and pride, despondency and resilience--as well as the ambiguities and paradoxes of Allied victory and occupation.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sollors, Werner (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2014.
Temas:
1939-1951
Reconstruction (1939-1951) > Germany.
Denazification.
Social psychology > Germany.
World War, 1939-1945 > Influence.
World War, 1939-1945 > Art and the war.
World War, 1939-1945 > Literature and the war.
World War, 1939-1945 > Motion pictures and the war.
Reconstruction, 1939-1951 > Allemagne.
Dénazification.
Psychologie sociale > Allemagne.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Influence.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Art et guerre.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Littérature et guerre.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Cinéma et guerre.
HISTORY > Europe > Western.
HISTORY > Modern > 20th Century.
Reconstruction (1939-1951)
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Social psychology.
War and literature.
War and motion pictures.
Germany.
Art and the war.
Art.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : before success
  • March 29, 1945 : between the no longer and the not yet : peace breaks out gradually in Central Europe
  • May 7, 1945 : malevolent rectangles of spectral horror : a photographer and his subject
  • June 23, 1945 : after Dachau : of private vengeance, collective guilt, life in ruins, population transfers, and displaced persons
  • October 4, 1945 : dilemmas of denazification : Karl Loewenstein, Carl Schmitt, military occupation, and militant democracy
  • January 8, 1946 : are you occupied territory? : black G.I.s in fiction of the occupation
  • April 24, 1946 : the race problem in the house on Lilac Road : occupation children and the film Toxi
  • August 20, 1948
  • May 6, 1977 : Heil, Johnny : Billy Wilder's A foreign affair, or, The denazification of Erika von Schlutow
  • Coda : comic relief?
  • Afterword.

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