Product Description: The twentieth century witnessed genocides, ethnic cleansing, forced population expulsions, shifting borders, and other disruptions on an unprecedented scale. This book examines the work of memory and the ethics of healing in post authoritarian societies that have experienced state-perpetrated violence...read more

Product Description: The recent "discovery" of German wartime suffering has had a particularly profound impact in German visual culture. Films from Margarethe von Trotta's Rosenstrasse (2003) to Oliver Hirschbiegel's Oscar-nominated Downfall (2004) and the two-part television mini-series Dresden (2006) have shown how ordinary Germans suffered during and after the war...read more

Product Description: One of the most radical, controversial works ever created by playwright Bertolt Brecht and composer Kurt Weill, the opera The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny is a devastating critique of capitalism. This volume includes twenty-nine essays in English and German that address Mahagonny from multiple perspectives: context, text, utopia, music, and the continuing influence of this opera more than three quarters of a century after its creation...read more

(view table of contents)

(view table of contents)

Product Description: Who is remembering the German Democratic Republic, and how do they go about it? This volume of «contentious memories» brings together essays and critical responses in a look back at three aspects of GDR studies. It presents an opportunity for self-reflection on German Studies' past and ongoing engagement with the GDR and post-unification transformations...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Celebrating Bertolt Brecht's centenary year, this volume presents selected papers from the 1998 International Brecht Society Symposium in San Diego.  The contributors discuss theater and politics, alienation effects and gestus, Brecht's poetry, Brecht and music, revisiting the Lehrstück, and Brecht in the Americas...read more

Product Description: Who is remembering the German Democratic Republic, and how do they go about it? This volume of «contentious memories» brings together essays and critical responses in a look back at three aspects of GDR studies. It presents an opportunity for self-reflection on German Studies' past and ongoing engagement with the GDR and post-unification transformations...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description:     This volume is a joint publication of the Brecht Yearbook and the Berlin journal Theater der Zeit Arbeitsbuch in anticipation of the Brecht centenary in 1998. The large-format edition is richly illustrated and includes original contributions in English and German by writers Nadine Gordimer, Günther Grass, Elfriede Jelinek, Volker Braun, Gerhard Zwerenz, and Christoph Hein...read more

(view table of contents)

Product Description: This collection continues in the direction of Yyearbook 17, with US and European scholars covering the historical background of some of Brecht's texts, examining his notions in the light of alternative theories, and discussing his reception in various contemporary situations.