Imagining Mass Dictatorships: The Individual and the Masses in Literature and Cinema (Mass Dictatorship in the Twentieth Century) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1137330686 ISBN 13: 9781137330680

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013

Synopsis

This volume in the series Mass Dictatorship in the Twentieth Century series sees twelve Swedish, Korean and Japanese scholars, theorists, and historians of fiction and non-fiction probe the literary subject of life in 20th century mass dictatorships.

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About the Author:

Anamaria Dutceac Segesten, Lund University, Sweden Anders Ohlsson, Lund University, Sweden Bibi Jonsson, Lund University, Sweden Karin Nykvist, Lund University, Sweden Björn Larsson, Lund University, Sweden Seonjoo Park, Inha University, Korea Mats Jonsson, Lund University, Sweden Kerstin Bergman, Lund University, Sweden Hyung-ki Shin, Yonsei University, Korea Jimmy Vulovic, Ph.D., Lund University, Sweden Professor Naoki Sakai, Cornell University, USA.

Review:

Imagining Mass Dictatorships: The Individual and the Masses in Literature and Cinema , deals with different representations of mass dictatorships. The works covered are quite heterogeneous and range from the books of Nobel-prize winners Herta Muller and Imre Kertesz to Swedish proletarian youth papers of the 1920s and contemporary crime novels. The volume provides valuable insights into the representation of mass dictatorships in literature and film, relating to whether we perceive our own form of government as substantively different or not so very different at all.'- Regine Zeller, Journal of Contemporary European Studies , (2014)

About this edition

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1137330686
• ISBN 13: 9781137330680
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 327
• Editor: Schoenhals M., Sarsenov K.