Secret police files from the Eastern bloc : between surveillance and life writing /: between surveillance and life writing. ([2016])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Valentina Glajar, Alison Lewis, and Corina L. Petrescu.
• Editors: Glajar, Valentina; Lewis, Alison, 1958-; Petrescu, Corina L
• Contents: Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction / Alison Lewis, Valentina Glajar, and Corina L. Petrescu -- File stories -- The secret lives and files of stasi collaborators : reading the files for identity and habitus / Alison Lewis -- "You'll never make a spy out of me" : the file story of "Fink Susanne" / Valentina Glajar -- Witness for the prosecution : Eginald Schlattner in the files of the securitate / Corina L. Petrescu -- Files, memory, and biography -- Collaboration as collapse in the life writing and Stasi shadow-documents of Monika Maron and Christa Wolf / Annie Ring -- Perpetrator as victim in Jana Dohring's stasiratte / Carol Anne Costabile-Heming -- Performing files and surveillance -- Before "It gets all wiped out" : document-affect and history-effect in the Hungarian performance apaches on the Danube / Aniko Szucs -- The stasi files on center stage : life writing, witnessing, and memory in recent performance / Ulrike Garde -- Surveillance and the senses in a documentary portrait of Radio Free Europe / Yuliya Komska -- Notes on the contributors -- Index.
• Publisher Details: Rochester, New York : Camden House
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 363.28/3094309045; Espionage -- Communist countries -- History -- 20th century; Espionage -- Europe, Eastern -- History -- 20th century; Police -- Communist countries -- History -- 20th century; Police -- Europe, Eastern -- History -- 20th century; Autobiography -- Case studies; Biography -- Case studies; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General; LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- German; Autobiography; Biography; Espionage; Police; Communist countries; Europe, Eastern; Electronic books; Case studies; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781782048695; 1782048693
• Related ISBNs: 9781571139269; 1571139265
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.