EAN: 9783039102662

VIOLENCE CULTURE AND IDENTITY KARTONIERT (TB)

This volume contains selected papers given at the conference 'Violence  Culture and Identity'
held at St Andrews University in 2003. It contributes to the debate on the role of culture in
propagating  mediating and controlling violence in society  concentrating on the relationship
between culture and identity-formation in Germany and Austria from the Middle Ages to the
present. Bringing together the work of twenty-two scholars with expertise in different literary
and historical periods  the volume probes the complexities of representations of violence
enacted and suffered  of affirmative and non-affirmative violence in text and visual form 
revealing the often blurred line between victim and victimizer. Violence in its discursive and
material forms is investigated  using the theoretical tools of sociology  post-colonial and
gender studies  history and psychology as well as of literary criticism. The collection of
essays focuses particularly on the relationship between war and identity  on 1970s terrorism
and identity  on violence and the construction of gender  and on contemporary writing in
German.

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