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Envisioning social justice in contemporary German culture /

Explores how contemporary German-language literary, dramatic, filmic, musical, and street artists are grappling in their works with social-justice issues that affect Germany and the wider world.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Twark, Jill E., 1968- (Editor ), Hildebrandt, Axel, 1967- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Rochester, New York : Camden House, 2015.
Colección:Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part I: Inheriting the Social-Justice Legacy of the 1968 Generation
  • 1: On Potatoes, Forgeries, Mistaken Identities, and Cultural Revolution in Uwe Timm's Postwall Novel Johannisnacht
  • 2: "Maybe the Genuine Utopia": Uwe Timm's Vision of a "Postsocialist" Society in the Novel Rot
  • Part II: Social Justice Mattersin Popular Culture
  • 3: Social Injustice in the German Tatort Television Series
  • 4: Die Toten Hosen, Rammstein, Azad, and Massiv: GermanRock and Rap Go Global for Social Justice
  • 5: Critical Voices from the Underground: Street Art andUrban Transformation in Berlin
  • Part III: Eastern German Views of Social Justice in Novels and Films
  • 6: Politics and Prekariat in Christoph Hein's Novels Frau PaulaTrousseau and Weiskerns Nachlass
  • 7: "Erzählt ist erzählt": The Ethics of Narration in Christa Wolf's Stadt der Engel oder The Overcoat of Dr. Freud
  • 8: Social Consciousness in the Bionade-Biedermeier: An Interviewwith Filmmakers Marc Bauder and Dörte Franke
  • Part IV: Theater as an Interventionist Medium for Promoting Social Justice
  • 9: Through Performance to Social Justice: Schlingensief's Narcissistic Sociality
  • 10: The Postdramatic Paradox: Theater as an InterventionistMedium in Falk Richter's Das System
  • Part V: Beyond Germany's Borders: Social-Justice Issues in a Global Context
  • 11: Settling in Mobility: Socioeconomic Justice and European Borderlands in Hans-Christian Schmid's Films Lichter and Die wundersame Welt der Waschkraft
  • 12: The Ethics of Listening in Dana Ranga's Wasserbuch andTerézia Mora's Das Ungeheuer
  • 13: Navid Kermani: Advocate for an Antipatriotic Patriotismand a Multireligious, Multicultural Europe.