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Rebellion and Revolution: Defiance in German Language, History and Art
Editor: Melissa Etzler and Priscilla Layne
Date Of Publication: Apr 2010
Isbn13: 978-1-4438-1935-0
Isbn: 1-4438-1935-2
Rebellion and Revolution: Defiance in German Language, History and Art is a transnational collection of twelve essays by scholars of history, literature and film. It offers new perspectives on several of the key moments in history when the German revolutionary spirit was at its peak. Inspired by both the 20th anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall and the 40th anniversary of the student movements of 1968, this book contributes to current discourses on resistance by providing a retrospective look at events and time periods ranging from the German Peasants’ War of 1525 to the American War for Independence and the French Revolution in the 18th century; and from the tumultuous period of the Weimar Republic up until the final days of the German Democratic Republic. This book not only provides a new outlook on important historical moments and sociopolitical issues, rather the articles take a multidisciplinary approach to analyze a variety of artistic works inspired by historical rebellious movements. This book provides a variety of theoretical interpretations which will be useful to readers interested in historiography, gender studies, rhetoric, philosophy, film, music and literature.

Melissa Etzler received her MA in German from California State University, Long Beach and she is currently a PhD candidate in the Department of German at the University of California, Berkeley. Her interests include contemporary German cinema and foreign language pedagogy. Her dissertation focuses on madness in twentieth-century literature.

Priscilla Layne is a PhD candidate in the Department of German at UC Berkeley where she researches issues of rebellion in German literature, music and film. She received her BA in Comparative Literature from the University of Chicago in 2003 and her MA in German from UC Berkeley in 2006.

“This inspiring collection illuminates a topic whose relevance for today cannot be overstated. Its broad literary scope—Goethe, Schiller, Kleist, Döblin, Brecht—and engagement with genres including visual culture, philosophy, social movements, and film illuminate a wide-reaching dialectics of revolution and society. Powerful and unpredictable, roiling beneath or erupting through, resistance profoundly constitutes our ever-changing world fabric. The trenchant and often surprising, firmly contextualized readings in this book explore culture as privileged site of rebellion in theory and praxis. As scholarly “angels of history,” they offer new ways of seeing, particularly in their expert scrutiny of “canonical” texts for variegated and sustained engagement with radical change.”

—Jennifer Ruth Hosek, Queen’s University

“This interdisciplinary volume challenges the widespread notion of German culture as inherently authoritarian and averse to revolution. Featuring an impressive range of approaches—historical, sociological, psychoanalytical, gendered, literary—it offers fresh perspectives on texts by such iconic German authors as Goethe, Schiller, Kleist, and Brecht and on actual moments of rebellion and revolution in German and European history, from the peasant revolt of 1525 to the student protests of 1968. While they recover what is revolutionary about these texts and historical moments, however, the book’s authors adeptly demonstrate the complexity and ambivalence with which the revolutionary idea itself is laden. The book shows how German culture grapples with revolution’s potential liberation and its potential violence, providing just the right balance of celebration and restraint. A laudable scholarly achievement.”

—Jill Suzanne Smith, Bowdoin College

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