Envisioning social justice in contemporary German culture. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Jill E. Twark and Axel Hildebrandt.
• Editors: Twark, Jill E, 1968-; Hildebrandt, Axel, 1967-
• Contents: 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.
• Publisher Details: Rochester, New York : Camden House
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource (vii, 326 pages)
• Subjects: 830.9/3556; German literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Social justice in literature; Social justice in art; LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- German; German literature; Social justice in art; Social justice in literature; Deutsch; Literatur; Film; Soziale Gerechtigkeit; Electronic books; Criticism, interpretation, etc; Aufsatzsammlung; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781580468992; 1580468993
• Related ISBNs: 9781571135698; 1571135693
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed July 8, 2015).
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