| Berendse, Gerrit-Jan and Cornils, Ingo, eds. 2008. Baader-Meinhof returns: History and cultural memory of German left-wing terrorism. German Monitor, vol. 70. Amsterdam; New York: Rodopi. |
Abstract
This volume is dedicated to the study of artistic and historical documents that recall German left-wing terrorism in the 1970s. It is intended to contribute to a better understanding of this violent epoch in Germany’s recent past and the many ways it is remembered. The cultural memory of the RAF past is a useful device to disentangle the complex relationship between terror and the arts. This bond has become a particularly pressing matter in an era of a new, so-called global terrorism when the culture industry is obviously fascinated with terror. Fourteen scholars of visual cultures and contemporary literature offer in-depth investigations into the artistic process of engaging with West Germany’s era of political violence in the 1970s. The assessments are framed by two essays from historians: one looks back at the previously ignored anti-Semitic context of 1970s terrorism, the other offers a thought-provoking epilogue on the extension of the so-called Stammheim syndrome to the debate on the treatment of prisoners in Guantánamo Bay. The contributions on cultural memory argue that any future memory of German left-wing terrorism will need to acknowledge the inseparable bond between terror and the artistic response it produces.
| Item Type: | Book |
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| Book Type: | Edited Book |
| Date Type: | Publication |
| Status: | Published |
| Schools: | Modern Languages |
| Subjects: | D History General and Old World > DD Germany J Political Science > JA Political science (General) |
| Additional Information: | Volume consists of selected and commissioned papers after international conference on German left-wing terrorism, held at Cardiff University in September 2005 |
| Publisher: | Rodopi |
| ISBN: | 9789042023918 |
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| Last Modified: | 04 Jun 2017 03:48 |
| URI: | https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/27059 |
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