After the Red Army Faction - Gender, Culture, and Militancy

Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-0-231-16864-9
Verlag: Columbia University Press

Buch, Englisch, 312 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 566 g

Masterminded by women, the Red Army Faction (RAF) terrorized West Germany from the 1970s to the 1990s, and afterimages of its leaders persist in the works of pivotal artists and writers, including Gerhard Richter, Elfriede Jelinek, and Slavoj Žižek. Why were women so prominent in the RAF? What does the continuing cultural response to the German armed struggle tell us about the representation of violence, power, and gender today? Engaging critical theory, Charity Scribner addresses these questions and analyzes signal works that point beyond militancy and terrorism. This literature and art exposes the failures of the German Far Left and registers the radical potential that RAF women actually forfeited.
After the Red Army Faction maps out a cultural history of militancy and introduces “postmilitancy” as a new critical term. As Scribner demonstrates, the most compelling examples of postmilitant culture do not just repudiate militancy: these works investigate its possibility, particularly in the realm of sexual politics. Scribner analyzes as-yet untranslated essays by Theodor Adorno and Jürgen Habermas, as well as novels by Friedrich Dürrenmattand and Judith Kuckart. She also examines Johann Kresnik’s Tanztheaterstück Ulrike Meinhof and the blockbuster exhibition Regarding Terror at the Berlin Kunst-Werke. Scribner focuses on German cinema, offering incisive interpretations of films by Margarethe von Trotta, Volker Schlöndorff, and Fatih Akin, as well as the international box-office success The Baader-Meinhof Complex(2008). These readings reveal dynamic junctures in national and sexual identities, the disciplining of the militant body, and the relationship between mass media and the arts.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Scribner, Charity

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunstpsychologie und -soziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunst: Rezeption, Einflüsse und Beziehungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Gewalt Terrorismus, Religiöser Fundamentalismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Beyond MilitancyPart 1. Militant Acts1. The Red Decade and Its Cultural Fallout2. Damaged Lives of the Far Left: Reading the RAF in Reverse3. Buildings on Fire: The Situationist International and the Red Army FactionPart II. Postmilitant Culture4. The Stammheim Complex in Marianne and Juliane5. Violence and the Tendenzwende: Engendering Victims in the Novel and Film6. Anatomies of Protest and Resistance: Meinhof, Fischer7. Regarding Terror at the Berlin Kunst-WerkeAfterword: Signs of a New SeasonNotesWorks CitedIndex

Leseproben

Read "Beyond Militancy," an excerpt from the introduction:

Über Autor(innen)

Charity Scribner is an associate professor at the City University of New York, where she teaches comparative literature at the Graduate Center and LaGuardia Community College. She is also the author of Requiem for Communism.