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Secret Police Files from the Eastern Bloc: Between Surveillance and Life Writing (Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture)
Valentina Glajar
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Description for Secret Police Files from the Eastern Bloc: Between Surveillance and Life Writing (Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture)
Hardcover. New essays exploring the tension between the versions of the past in secret police files and the subjects' own personal memories-and creative workings-through-of events. Num Pages: 256 pages, 13 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFGE; 2ACG; 3JJP; DSBH; HBTW; JPVR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 165 x 241 x 24. Weight in Grams: 536.
The communist secret police services of Central and Eastern Europe kept detailed records not only of their victims but also of the vast networks of informants and collaborators upon whom their totalitarian systems depended. These records, now open to the public in many former Eastern Bloc countries, reflect a textually mediated reality that has defined and shaped the lives of former victims and informers, creating a tension between official records and personal memories. Exploring this tension between a textually and technically mediated past and the subject/victim's reclaiming and retrospective interpretation of that past in biography is the goal of this ... Read more
The communist secret police services of Central and Eastern Europe kept detailed records not only of their victims but also of the vast networks of informants and collaborators upon whom their totalitarian systems depended. These records, now open to the public in many former Eastern Bloc countries, reflect a textually mediated reality that has defined and shaped the lives of former victims and informers, creating a tension between official records and personal memories. Exploring this tension between a textually and technically mediated past and the subject/victim's reclaiming and retrospective interpretation of that past in biography is the goal of this ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Camden House
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
536g
Number of Pages
252
Place of Publication
Columbia, MD, United States
ISBN
9781571139269
SKU
V9781571139269
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Ref
99-17
About Valentina Glajar
Assistant professor of German at Texas State University-San Marcos
Reviews for Secret Police Files from the Eastern Bloc: Between Surveillance and Life Writing (Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture)
Well researched and engagingly written . . . provides the reader with a wealth of sources and personal accounts of secret police influence, intervention, and collusion. . . A fascinating account of personal reflection, blackmail, and bribery taken from the existing files of East Germany, Hungary and Romania. JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY HISTORY The volume eloquently ... Read more