Twark / Hildebrandt Envisioning Social Justice in Contemporary German Culture

1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-58046-899-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 162, 334 Seiten

Reihe: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Twark, Jill

Hildebrandt, Axel

Weitere Mitwirkende

López, Alexandra Simon

Hildebrandt, Axel

Heinsohn, Bastian

Janson, Deborah

Davis, Jack

Twark, Jill

Machtans, Karolin

Pfister, Laurel Cohen

Stehle, Maria

Albrecht, Monika

Berwald, Olaf

Simpson, Patricia Anne

Remshardt, Ralf

Blankenship, Robert

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Installations-, Aktions-, Computer- und Videokunst
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Deutsche Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction - Jill Twark and Axel Hildebrandt
On Potatoes, Forgeries, Mistaken Identities, and Cultural Revolution in Uwe Timm's Postwall Novel Johannisnacht - Deborah Janson
"Maybe the Genuine Utopia": Uwe Timm's Vision of a "Postsocialist" Society in the Novel Rot - Monika Albrecht
Social Injustice in the German Tatort Television Series - Alexandra Simon López
Die Toten Hosen, Rammstein, Azad, and Massiv: German Rock and Rap Go Global for Social Justice - Jill Twark
Die Toten Hosen, Rammstein, Azad, and Massiv: German Rock and Rap Go Global for Social Justice - Patricia Anne Simpson
Critical Voices from the Underground: Street Art and Urban Transformation in Berlin - Bastian Heinsohn
Politics and Prekariat in Christoph Hein's Novels Frau Paula Trousseau and Weiskerns Nachlass - Axel Hildebrandt
"Erzählt ist erzählt": The Ethics of Narration in Christa Wolf's Stadt der Engel oder The Overcoat of Dr. Freud - Robert Blankenship
Social Consciousness in the Bionade-Biedermeier: An Interview with Filmmakers Marc Bauder and Dörte Franke - Laurel Cohen Pfister
Through Performance to Social Justice: Schlingensief's Narcissistic Sociality - Jack Davis
The Postdramatic Paradox: Theater as an Interventionist Medium in Falk Richter's Das System - Ralf Remshardt
Settling in Mobility: Socioeconomic Justice and European Borderlands in Hans-Christian Schmid's Films Lichter and Die wundersame Welt der Waschkraft - Maria Stehle
The Ethics of Listening in Dana Ranga's Wasserbuch and Terézia Mora's Das Ungeheuer - Olaf Berwald
Navid Kermani: Advocate for an Antipatriotic Patriotism and a Multireligious, Multicultural Europe - Karolin Machtans

Über Autor(innen)

Janson Deborah:
Deborah Janson is an associate professor of German at West Virginia UniversityStehle Maria:
MARIA STEHLE is Professor of German and Cinema Studies at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.Simpson Patricia Anne:
PATRICIA ANNE SIMPSON is Professor of German at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.Blankenship Robert:
ROBERT BLANKENSHIP is Assistant Professor at California State University, Long Beach.