Baader-Meinhof Returns
：History and Cultural Memory of German Left-Wing Terrorism
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Publication subTitle ：History and Cultural Memory of German Left-Wing Terrorism
Publication series ：1
Author： Berendse Gerrit-Jan;Cornils Ingo
Publisher： Brill
Publication year： 2008
E-ISBN: 9789042032156
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9789042023918
Subject： D815.5 international security issues, international terrorism, counter - narcotics activities in the
Keyword： 文化理论
Language： ENG
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Description
This volume is dedicated to the study of artistic and historical documents that recall German left-wing terrorism in the 1970s.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.
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