LEADER 02467nam 2200373z- 450 001 9910571774903321 005 20231214132940.0 010 $a0-85457-276-7 035 $a(CKB)5490000000082117 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/81990 035 $a(EXLCZ)995490000000082117 100 $a20202206d2020 |y 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurmn|---annan 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aWriting and the West German Protest Movements$eThe Textual Revolution 210 $aLondon$cUniversity of London Press$d2020 215 $a1 electronic resource (282 p.) 225 1 $aimlr books 311 $a0-85457-251-1 330 $aThe 1960s protest movements marked an astonishing moment for West Germany. They developed a political critique, but are above all distinctive for their overwhelming emphasis on culture and the symbolic. In particular, reading and writing had a uniquely prestigious status for West German protesters, who produced an extraordinary textual culture ranging from graffiti and flyers to agit-prop poetry and autobiographical prose. By turns witty, provocative, reflective and offensive, the avantgarde roots of anti-authoritarianism are as palpable in their texts as their debt to high literature. But due to this culture?s (apparently) anti-literary tone, it has often remained illegible to traditional criticism. This volume presents close readings and analyses of emblematic examples of texts, some forgotten, others better known, embedding them in historical, cultural, theoretical and aesthetic context, and illuminating representative moments and preoccupations in anti-authoritarian culture, from the Vietnam War to the Nazi past, to dirt and hygiene. They outline an anti-authoritarian poetics and uncover some of the texts? latent content, revealing often hidden tensions and contradictions, above all in relation to the German past and questions of authority. 517 $aWriting and the West German Protest Movements 606 $aEuropean history$2bicssc 607 $aGermany (West)$xPolitics and government$y1945-1990 615 7$aEuropean history 676 $a943.1 700 $aPuw Davies$b Mererid$4auth$01315823 702 $aMeredid$b Puw Davies$4auth 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910571774903321 996 $aWriting and the West German Protest Movements$93032521 997 $aUNINA