Kaliningrad and cultural memory : Cold War and post-Soviet representations of a resettled city /

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Author / Creator:	Saunders, Edward (Edward Isaac John), author.
Imprint:	Oxford ; New York : Peter Lang, [2019]
Description:	viii, 308 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Cultural memories ; vol. 12 Cultural memories ; vol. 12.
Subject:	Collective memory -- Russia (Federation) -- Kaliningrad (Kaliningradskai͡a oblastʹ) Politics and culture -- Russia (Federation) -- Kaliningrad (Kaliningradskai͡a oblastʹ) -- 20th century. Germans -- Prussia, East (Poland and Russia) Kaliningrad (Kaliningradskai͡a oblastʹ, Russia) -- History -- 20th century. Kaliningrad (Kaliningradskai͡a oblastʹ, Russia) -- Civilization -- 20th century. Kaliningrad (Kaliningradskai͡a oblastʹ, Russia) -- Intellectual life. Prussia, East (Poland and Russia)
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11803615

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ISBN:	9781787072749 1787072746 9781787072756 (ePDF) 9781787072763 (ePub) 9781787072770 (mobi)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-298) and index.
Summary:	"In 1945, the Soviet Union annexed the East Prussian city of Königsberg, later renaming it Kaliningrad. Left in ruins by the war, the home of Immanuel Kant became a Russian city, a source of historical and cultural fascination for settlers, former inhabitants, visitors and observers alike. New settlers replaced the German population in the years that followed. This book looks at three aspects of Kaliningrad's relationship to the memory of Königsberg through cultural and literary sources and visual representations. First, it addresses the symbolism of Königsberg as a memory site in German culture and nostalgia for the city after 1945. Second, it discusses imagined and satirical literary-cultural adaptations and deconstructions of the idea of 'Kant and Königsberg' during the Cold War and afterwards. Third, it explores and reflects on discourses of memory, history and nostalgia in representations of the city by poets, photographers and filmmakers visiting Kaliningrad from the 1960s onwards. The book provides an introduction to the memory debates relating to Königsberg-Kaliningrad, as well as new critical readings of literary texts, films and photographic works"--

Table of Contents:

List of Figures
Introduction: Memory, Nostalgia and Place-Writing in Eastern Europe
Part I. Resettled City: Konigsberg-Kaliningrad as a Memory Site
Chapter 1. Königsberg as a Lapsed and Unfulfilled Site of Germany's Collective-Auto biographical Memory
Chapter 2. Renaming Debates and Local Strategies of Collective-Autobiographical Memory in Kaliningrad
Chapter 3. Lost 'Cultural Intimacy' and Individual Forms of Nostalgic Memory for Konigsberg
Part III. Literary Allegories of the Philosophical Canon: 'Kant and Königsberg' as a Co-ordinate of Cold War Memory
Chapter 4. Toppling a Monument: Adapting Biomyths in Satires on 'Kant and Königsberg'
Chapter 5. 'Kant and Königsberg' and Failed Revolutions in Bertolt Brecht's Adaptation of Der Hofmeister
Chapter 6. Countering Loss through Literature: Johannes Bobrowski's Imagined Königsberg
Part III. Intertextual Memory: Psychogeography in 'Real-and-Imagined' Visits to Kaliningrad
Chapter 7. Joseph Brodsky in Kaliningrad: Postcards, Photographs and Reflections at the 'Earth's Border'
Chapter 8. Ecocritical Post-Communism? Visits to Kaliningrad after Perestroika
Chapter 9. Ruin Ethics and Aesthetics: 'Kant and Kaliningrad' in the Photography of Joachim Koester and Norbert Wiesneth
Conclusion: Writing Place and Bearing Witness
Chronology
Bibliography
Index

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