Imagining Mass Dictatorships: The Individual and the Masses in Literature and Cinema

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction....Pages 1-6
The Constitution of a Reliable Self: Word for Word by Oleg Dorman and Lilianna Lungina....Pages 7-27
The Post-Communist Afterlife of Dissident Writers: The Case of Herta Müller....Pages 28-51
Challenging the ‘Holocaust-Reflex’: Imre Kertész’s Fatelessness: A Novel....Pages 52-72
Ulrike and the War: World War II, Mass Dictatorship and Nazism in the Eyes of a German Girl....Pages 73-93
Through the Eyes of a Child: Childhood and Mass Dictatorship in Modern European Literature....Pages 94-120
Is Fictional Literature Incapable of Imagining the Shoah?....Pages 121-143
Politics, Imagination and Everyday Life in Nadine Gordimer’s The Pickup....Pages 144-161
Innocence by Association? Everyday Nazism on DVD....Pages 162-182
The Good, the Bad and the Collaborators: Swedish World War II Guilt Redefined in Twenty-First-Century Crime Fiction?....Pages 183-210
Who Are ‘We’? The Dynamics of Consent and Coercion in Yi Mun-gu’s Our Neighbourhood....Pages 211-228
Swedish Proletarians towards Freedom: Ideals of Participation as Propaganda in the Communist Children’s Press of the 1920s....Pages 229-257
The Masses in Their Own Write (and Draw): A Heroes’ Register from the Great Cultural Revolution in Yunnan....Pages 258-284
Postscript....Pages 285-312
Back Matter....Pages 313-316