UID:
edocfu_9959236432302883
Format:
1 online resource (383 p.)
ISBN:
1-283-19270-5
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1-4438-2781-9
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9786613192707
Content:
The fourteen chapters in this anthology feature original analyses of contemporary German-language literary texts, films, political cartoons, cabaret, and other types of performance. The artworks display a wide spectrum of humor modes, such as irony, satire, the grotesque, Jewish humor, and slapstick, as responses to unification Other the accompanying euphoria, but also alienation and dislocation. Kerstin Hensel's Lärchenau, Christoph Hein's Landnahme, and vignette collections by Jakob Hein (An...
Note:
"This anthology ... (from) the panel on humor in post-unification German literature and film for the 2009 North East Modern Language Association conference in Boston"--Acknowledgements.
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pt. 1. Complicating East-West binaries with "Auslander" humor -- pt. 2. Performing memory work with cabaret and grotesque bodies -- pt. 3. Screening the GDR and postwall Germany in film comedies -- pt. 4. Christian Kracht's ironic critiques of the jaded westerner -- pt. 5. The evolution of Hitler humor in divided and united Germany.
,
English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-4438-2703-7
Language:
English
