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Author:   Valentina N. Glajar (Royalty Account) ,  Alison Lewis ,  Corina Petrescu (Customer) ,  Alison Lewis
Publisher:   Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Imprint:   Camden House Inc
Volume:   v. 176
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.001kg
ISBN:  

9781571139269

ISBN 10:   1571139265
Pages:   252
Publication Date:   15 December 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Introduction - Valentina N. Glajar and Corina L. Petrescu and Alison Lewis The Secret Lives and Files of Stasi Collaborators: Reading the Files for Identity and Habitus - Alison Lewis ""You'll Never Make a Spy Out of Me"": The File Story of ""Fink Susanne"" - Valentina N. Glajar Witness for the Prosecution: Eginald Schlattner in the Files of the Securitate - Corina L. Petrescu Collaboration as Collapse in the Life Writing and Stasi Shadow-Documents of Monica Maron and Christa Wolf - Annie Ring Perpetrator as Victim in Jana Dohring's Stasiratte - Carol Anne Costabile-Heming Before ""It Gets All Wiped Out"": Document-Affect and History-Effect in the Hungarian Performance Apaches on the Danube - Aniko Szucs The Stasi Files on Center Stage: Life Writinig, Witnessing, and Memory in Recent Performance - Ulrike Garde Surveillance and the Senses in a Documentary Portrait of Radio Free Europe - Yuliya Komska"

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Takes the reader (on) a journey into the everyday life of the darkest days of East-Central Europe. Although addressing mainly scholarly audiences, this book also discusses issues of (wider) interest. HUNGARIAN CULTURAL STUDIES

[This book] will not resolve the legal and ethical challenges facing post-communist states. It does, however, invite us to rethink how we read secret police files, and offers several creative ways to do so. It deserves a wide readership among scholars of the GDR and other communist regimes. GERMAN QUARTERLY [This] book is . . . an exercise in repurposing this huge body of material, in putting it to good and sometimes surprising use in starting the process of democratizing and absorbing it into contemporary histories and stories. Without being prescriptive, it suggests three distinct but equally productive approaches. SEMINAR [Brigid Haines] This assured and compelling volume offers differentiated readings of file stories, while also raising important questions about how this difficult past continues to be remembered, or forgotten, today. EUROPEAN HISTORY QUARTERLY [Dierdre Byrnes] Takes the reader [on] a journey into the everyday life of the darkest days of East-Central Europe. Although addressing mainly scholarly audiences, this book also discusses issues of [wider] interest. HUNGARIAN CULTURAL STUDIES

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VALENTINA GLAJAR is Professor of German at Texas State University. VALENTINA GLAJAR is Professor of German at Texas State University.

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