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Imagining Mass Dictatorships

The Individual and the Masses in Literature and Cinema

  • Michael Schoenhals
  • Karin Sarsenov
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Part of the Mass Dictatorship in the 20th Century book series (MASSD)

Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction
    Michael Schoenhals, Karin Sarsenov
    Pages 1-6
  3. The Constitution of a Reliable Self: Word for Word by Oleg Dorman and Lilianna Lungina
    Karin Sarsenov
    Pages 7-27
  4. The Post-Communist Afterlife of Dissident Writers: The Case of Herta Müller
    Anamaria Dutceac Segesten
    Pages 28-51
  5. Challenging the ‘Holocaust-Reflex’: Imre Kertész’s Fatelessness: A Novel
    Anders Ohlsson
    Pages 52-72
  6. Ulrike and the War: World War II, Mass Dictatorship and Nazism in the Eyes of a German Girl
    Bibi Jonsson
    Pages 73-93
  7. Through the Eyes of a Child: Childhood and Mass Dictatorship in Modern European Literature
    Karin Nykvist
    Pages 94-120
  8. Is Fictional Literature Incapable of Imagining the Shoah?
    Björn Larsson
    Pages 121-143
  9. Politics, Imagination and Everyday Life in Nadine Gordimer’s The Pickup
    Seonjoo Park
    Pages 144-161
  10. Innocence by Association? Everyday Nazism on DVD
    Mats Jönsson
    Pages 162-182
  11. The Good, the Bad and the Collaborators: Swedish World War II Guilt Redefined in Twenty-First-Century Crime Fiction?
    Kerstin Bergman
    Pages 183-210
  12. Who Are ‘We’? The Dynamics of Consent and Coercion in Yi Mun-gu’s Our Neighbourhood
    Shin Hyung-ki
    Pages 211-228
  13. Swedish Proletarians towards Freedom: Ideals of Participation as Propaganda in the Communist Children’s Press of the 1920s
    Jimmy Vulovic
    Pages 229-257
  14. The Masses in Their Own Write (and Draw): A Heroes’ Register from the Great Cultural Revolution in Yunnan
    Michael Schoenhals
    Pages 258-284
  15. Postscript
    Naoki Sakai
    Pages 285-312
  16. Back Matter
    Pages 313-316
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About this book

Introduction

This volume in the series Mass Dictatorship in the Twentieth Century series sees twelve Swedish, Korean and Japanese scholars, theorists, and historians of fiction and non-fiction probe the literary subject of life in 20th century mass dictatorships.

Keywords

communism constitution crime dictatorship individual liberty National Socialism participation politics revolution World War I World War II

Editors and affiliations

  • Michael Schoenhals
    • 1
  • Karin Sarsenov
    • 2
  1. 1.Lund UniversitySweden
  2. 2.Malmö UniversitySweden

Bibliographic information

  • DOI https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137330697
  • Copyright Information Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2013
  • Publisher Name Palgrave Macmillan, London
  • eBook Packages Palgrave History Collection
  • Print ISBN 978-1-349-46118-9
  • Online ISBN 978-1-137-33069-7
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