After the Red Army Faction - Gender, Culture, and Militancy

Masterminded by women, the Red Army Faction (RAF) terrorized West Germany from the 1970s to the 1990s, and afterimages of its leaders persist in the works of pivotal artists and writers, including Gerhard Richter, Elfriede Jelinek, and Slavoj Zizek. Why were women so prominent in the RAF? What does the continuing cultural response to the German armed struggle tell us about the representation of violence, power, and gender today? Engaging critical theory, Charity Scribner addresses these questions and analyzes signal works that point beyond militancy and terrorism. This literature and art exposes the failures of the German Far Left and registers the radical potential that RAF women actually forfeited.

Summary

Analyzing the afterimage of revolutionary violence in contemporary culture and politics.Utopia or Auschwitz: Germany’s 1968 Generation and the Holocaust

Report

"Charity Scribners After the Red Army Faction will be an important contribution to our understanding of the impact of the left-wing terrorism of 1970s West Germany, and in particular the Baader-Meinhof Group or Red Army Fraction (RAF), on culture in West Germany and beyond." - Hans Kundnani, author of Utopia Auschwitz: Germany's 1968 generation and the Holocaust

Product details

• Authors: Charity Scribner, Scribner Charity
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.12.2014
• EAN: 9780231168649
• ISBN: 978-0-231-16864-9
• No. of pages: 312
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; HISTORY / Europe / Germany, Cultural Studies, Social Theory, Germany, PHILOSOPHY / Political, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, ART / History / Contemporary (1945-), PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Critical Theory, PERFORMING ARTS / Dance / General, Films, cinema, Art treatments & subjects, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, art history; contemporary art; critical theory