Imagining Mass Dictatorships - The Individual and the Masses in Literature and Cinema

"This volume in the series 'Mass Dictatorship in the Twentieth Century' 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. Generously defined, the 'literary' in this context covers a wide spectrum of narrative forms, ranging from the commercial television documentary to popular crime fiction, and from digitally restored amateur film on DVD to the Nobel Prize winning novel. It deals with mass dictatorship regimes as far apart as Nazi Germany, Park Chung-hee's South Korea, Stalinist Russia, post-war Hungary, Mao Zedong's China, apartheid's South Africa, and Ceausescu's Romania. The interplay of analytical ideas and the transnational perspectives that this volume brings add a new dimension to our understanding of traumatic events - 'dark chapters' - in 20th century history. By focusing the immense role of imagination within a cultural discourse otherwise dominated by irrefutable facts such as the existence of Holocaust and Gulag, this volume opens new ways of thinking perceptively about trauma, power and self"--

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• Authors: Michael Sarsenov Schoenhals
• Assisted by: Sarsenov (Editor), Sarsenov (Editor), K. Sarsenov (Editor), Karin Sarsenov (Editor), Schoenhals (Editor), M Schoenhals (Editor), M. Schoenhals (Editor), Michael Schoenhals (Editor)
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.08.2013
• EAN: 9781137330680
• ISBN: 978-1-137-33068-0
• No. of pages: 327
• Series: Mass Dictatorship in the Twentieth Century; Mass Dictatorship in the 20th; Mass Dictatorship in the Twentieth Century; Mass Dictatorship in the 20th
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political theories and the history of ideas; B, Literature, Cultural History, History: specific events & topics, Social History, Social & cultural history, world history, General & world history, Political science & theory, Political History, World Politics, Literature, general, World History, Global and Transnational History, History, Modern, Civilization—History, Palgrave History Collection, Modern History, Biography, Literature & Literary studies