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Author : Ilka Rasch
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Return of the Red Army Faction (RAF) written by Ilka Rasch and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ... investigates representations of politically motivated violence since the 1960s ... focuses on post-Wall representations of the Red Army Faction (RAF), Germany's oldest and most notorious 'urban guerilla' group, including fictional films, 'docu-fictions, ' literary sources, and a controversial museum exhibit ... An assessment of representations of the RAF in post-Wall discourses provides insight into the impact of National Socialism, the student movement, and the RAF on contemporary developments while laying the foundation for a fuller understanding of the current crisis of transmission triggered by the (re)unification process ... The RAF consciously deployed Holocaust iconography and aesthetic strategies central to fascism to create symbolically charged images linking contemporary events and politically motivated violence to Germany's National Socialist past. This link to the defining historical moment of German twentieth century history explains why artists have repeatedly turned to representations of the RAF to negotiate post-Wall narratives of German history and identity formation ... assessment of the post-Wall artifacts suggests that their conflicting symbolic values represent a crisis of transmission in which historical narratives and generational objects crucial to the New Left are questioned. The crisis over the legacy of New Left was triggered by the collapse of socialist regimes around 1989. The Fischer affair has become one of the most prominent examples, because it links contemporary politics and politicians to Germany's violent past, raising questions about the student movement's and the New Left's responsibility for and relationship to politically-motivated violence. Since the student movement and its violent aftermath serve as a central touchstone of German politics and culture, the current crisis of transmission challenges historical narratives crucial to German identity formation.