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Auteur(s) : Parkes, Keith Stuart (1943-....)
Titre(s) : Writers and politics in Germany, 1945-2008 [Texte imprimé] / Stuart Parkes
Publication : Rochester, N.Y. : Camden House, c2009
Description matérielle : x, 239 p. ; 24 cm
Collection : Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture
Lien à la collection : Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture
Comprend : The aftermath of war and the new beginning ; The 1950s : the deepening division
; The 1960s: taking sides ; A West German interlude : writers and politics at the
time of the student movement ; The 1970s : writers on the defensive ; The 1980s
: on the threshold ; Intermezzo : writers and the unification process ; Segue :
political and literary developments since Unification ; East and West ; New views
on the past ; A swing to the Right?
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-227) and index
"George Orwell said that all writing is political; but the writers of some nations
and some periods are more political than others. German writers after 1945 have exemplified
such heightened politicization, and this book considers their contribution to the
democratic development of Germany by looking principally at their directly political,
non-fictional writings. It pays particular attention to writers and the student movement
of the 1960s and '70s, when some proclaimed the death of literature and called for
a turn to direct political action. Yet writers in both parts of Germany gradually
came to identify with their respective states, even if the idea of one Germany never
entirely disappeared. The unification of 1989-1990, in which this idea astonishingly
became reality, posed a major (and some would say unmet) challenge to writers in both
East and West. After looking at this period of intense political activities, the book
considers the continuing East/West division and changing attitudes to the Nazi past,
asking whether the intellectual climate has swung to the right. It also asks to what
extent political involvement has been a generational project for the immediate postwar
generation and is less important for younger writers who see the Federal Republic
as a "normal" democratic state"--Publisher's website
Sujet(s) : Écrivains -- Pensée politique et sociale -- Allemagne -- 1945-....
Littérature allemande -- 20e siècle
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781571134011 (hardcover) (alk. paper). - ISBN 1571134018 (hardcover) (alk. paper).
- ISBN 9781571135803. - ISBN 1571135804
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb436472558
Notice n° :
FRBNF43647255
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
