Violence Elsewhere 2 (eBook, ePUB)

Imagining Distant Violence in Germany since 2001
Redaktion: Bielby, Clare; Davies, Mererid Puw

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Produktbeschreibung

Examines ideas of violence in German culture after 9/11 through the lens of "violence elsewhere" - exploring works and discourses about violence in distant locations or times.

Following the Nazi era, the Holocaust, and the Second World War, in postwar Germany thinking or speaking about that extreme violence seemed distinctively difficult - even perhaps, at times, impossible. Yet we can learn about understandings of violence in this period in novel ways by exploring images and constructions in German culture of faraway violence, as shown in the recent volume Violence Elsewhere 1: Imagining Distant Violence in Germany, 1945-2001.

As of September 11, 2001, violence came to appear transnationally, spectacularly mobile in new ways. Consequently, Violence Elsewhere 2 explores ideas about "violence elsewhere" in German-language culture since 2001. Here, "elsewhere" can mean not only distant places; it may also be violence perceived as foreign, or in the past. Simultaneously, this work suggests that the idea of 9/11 as a watershed in thinking about violence is more complex than meets the eye.

Here, nine essays consider classic literary forms like poetry and prose fiction, from the short story to the intergenerational German family novel to Black feminist speculative fiction. Contributors examine, too, philosophy, performance and multimedia art, political and other forms of public discourse, and film. Topics include, amongst others, the "war on terror," slow environmental violence, the Armenian genocide, portrayals of refugees and migrants, legacies of colonial violence, space travel, and the persistent resonance of the German past.

Contributors: Sofía Forchieri, Susanne C. Knittel, Marie Kolkenbrock, Priscilla Layne, Joanne Leal, Francesca Lewis, Frauke Matthes, Lizzie Stewart, Nicola Thomas, and Kathrin Wunderlich.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bonnier Books UK
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. November 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781805434467
• Artikelnr.: 72331051

Autorenporträt

Edited by Clare Bielby and Mererid Puw Davies

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction - Clare Bielby and
Mererid Puw Davies 1. "Violence Elsewhere" and the Phantasmatic Scene of
Distant Suffering: Intersections of Emotional and Spatial Distance - Marie
Kolkenbrock 2. War of Words/Words of War: The "Normalization" of War in the
Context of Germany's War in Afghanistan (2001-2021) - Kathrin Wunderlich
3. There Is No "Elsewhere": Scales of Complicity and Implication in the
Contemporary German Family Novel - Susanne C. Knittel and Sofía Forchieri
4. German Engagement with Iraqi Conflict in Sherko Fatah's Das dunkle
Schiff (2008; The Dark Ship, 2015) and Der letzte Ort (The Last Place,
2014) - Joanne Leal 5. Overview Effects: Violence and Planetarity in Durs
Grünbein's Cyrano oder Die Rückkehr vom Mond (Cyrano or the Return from the
Moon, 2014) - Nicola Thomas 6. Violence "Elsewhere, Within Here": Artistic
Engagement in Armenian Remembrance at "Location Germany" - Lizzie Stewart
7. Encountering Violence Elsewhere at Home in Clemens Meyer's Short-Story
Collection Die stillen Trabanten (2017; Dark Satellites, 2020) - Frauke
Matthes 8. The Entangled Mess of the Embodied Elsewhere in Luca
Guadagnino's Suspiria (2018) - Francesca Lewis 9. Utopias of Restorative
Justice: Speculative Fiction, Gender, and Violence in Sharon Dodua Otoo's
Adas Raum (2021; Ada's Realm, 2023) - Priscilla Layne Selected Bibliography
Notes on the Contributors Index