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Envisioning Social Justice in Contemporary German Culture
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Edited by:
Jill Twark
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With contributions by:
Alexandra Simon López
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English
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2015
About this book
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.
Social-injustice dilemmas such as poverty, unemployment, and racism are subjects of continuing debate in European societies and in Germany in particular, as solutions are difficult and progress often comes slowly. Such discussionsare not limited to opposing newspaper editorials, position papers, or legislative forums, however; creative works expound on these topics as well, but their contributions to the debate are often marginalized.
This collectionof new essays explores how contemporary German-language literary, dramatic, filmic, musical, and street artists are grappling with social-justice issues that affect Germany and the wider world, surveying more than a decade's worth of works of German literature and art in light of the recent paradigm shift in cultural criticism called the "ethical turn." Central themes include the legacy of the politically engaged 1968 generation, eastern Germany and the process of unification, widening economic disparity as a result of political policies and recession, and problems of integration and inclusivity for ethnic and religious minorities as migration to Germany has increased.
Contributors: Monika Albrecht, Olaf Berwald, Robert Blankenship, Laurel Cohen-Pfister, Jack Davis, Bastian Heinsohn, Axel Hildebrandt, Deborah Janson, Karolin Machtans, Ralf Remshardt, Alexandra Simon-López, Patricia Anne Simpson,Maria Stehle, Jill E. Twark.
Jill E. Twark is Associate Professor of German at East Carolina University. Axel Hildebrandt is Associate Professor of German at Moravian College.
Social-injustice dilemmas such as poverty, unemployment, and racism are subjects of continuing debate in European societies and in Germany in particular, as solutions are difficult and progress often comes slowly. Such discussionsare not limited to opposing newspaper editorials, position papers, or legislative forums, however; creative works expound on these topics as well, but their contributions to the debate are often marginalized.
This collectionof new essays explores how contemporary German-language literary, dramatic, filmic, musical, and street artists are grappling with social-justice issues that affect Germany and the wider world, surveying more than a decade's worth of works of German literature and art in light of the recent paradigm shift in cultural criticism called the "ethical turn." Central themes include the legacy of the politically engaged 1968 generation, eastern Germany and the process of unification, widening economic disparity as a result of political policies and recession, and problems of integration and inclusivity for ethnic and religious minorities as migration to Germany has increased.
Contributors: Monika Albrecht, Olaf Berwald, Robert Blankenship, Laurel Cohen-Pfister, Jack Davis, Bastian Heinsohn, Axel Hildebrandt, Deborah Janson, Karolin Machtans, Ralf Remshardt, Alexandra Simon-López, Patricia Anne Simpson,Maria Stehle, Jill E. Twark.
Jill E. Twark is Associate Professor of German at East Carolina University. Axel Hildebrandt is Associate Professor of German at Moravian College.
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Contributor: Deborah Janson
Deborah Janson is an associate professor of German at West Virginia University
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Contributor: Jack Davis
JACK DAVIS is Associate Professor of German at Truman State University, Missouri..
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Contributor: Maria Stehle
MARIA STEHLE is Professor of German and Cinema Studies at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
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Contributor: Olaf Berwald
OLAF BERWALD is Department Chair of World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures and Professor of German at Middle Tennessee State University.
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Contributor: Patricia Anne Simpson
PATRICIA ANNE SIMPSON is Professor of German at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
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Contributor: Robert Blankenship
ROBERT BLANKENSHIP is Assistant Professor at California State University, Long Beach.
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction
1 - Part I: Inheriting the Social-Justice Legacy of the 1968 Generation
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1: On Potatoes, Forgeries, Mistaken Identities, and Cultural Revolution in Uwe Timm’s Postwall Novel Johannisnacht
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2: “Maybe the Genuine Utopia”: Uwe Timm’s Vision of a “Postsocialist” Society in the Novel Rot
47 - Part II: Social Justice Matters in Popular Culture
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3: Social Injustice in the German Tatort Television Series
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4: Die Toten Hosen, Rammstein, Azad, and Massiv: German Rock and Rap Go Global for Social Justice
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5: Critical Voices from the Underground: Street Art and Urban Transformation in Berlin
119 - Part III: Eastern German Views of Social Justice in Novels and Films
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6: Politics and Prekariat in Christoph Hein’s Novels Frau Paula Trousseau and Weiskerns Nachlass
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7: “Erzählt ist erzählt”: The Ethics of Narration in Christa Wolf’s Stadt der Engel oder The Overcoat of Dr. Freud
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8: Social Consciousness in the Bionade-Biedermeier: An Interview with Filmmakers Marc Bauder and Dörte Franke
186 - Part IV: Theater as an Interventionist Medium for Promoting Social Justice
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9: Through Performance to Social Justice: Schlingensief’s Narcissistic Sociality
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10: The Postdramatic Paradox: Theater as an Interventionist Medium in Falk Richter’s Das System
227 - Part V: Beyond Germany’s Borders: Social-Justice Issues in a Global Context
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11: Settling in Mobility: Socioeconomic Justice and European Borderlands in Hans-Christian Schmid’s Films Lichter and Die wundersame Welt der Waschkraft
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12: The Ethics of Listening in Dana Ranga’s Wasserbuch and Terézia Mora’s Das Ungeheuer
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13: Navid Kermani: Advocate for an Antipatriotic Patriotism and a Multireligious, Multicultural Europe
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Notes on the Contributors
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Index
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April 3, 2024
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9781580468992
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Camden House
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Keywords for this book
Envisioning Social Justice in Contemporary German Culture; Contemporary Germany; poverty; unemployment; racism; political policies; recession; ethnic and religious minorities; migration to Germany; African democracy; Nigerian politics.
Audience(s) for this book
For an expert adult audience, including professional development and academic research
