Includes index.
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List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Introduction; Michael Schoenhals and Karin Sarsenov
1. The Constitution of a Reliable Self: Word for Word by Oleg Dorman and Lilianna Lungina; Karin Sarsenov
2. The Post-Communist Afterlife of Dissident Writers: The Case of Herta Muller; Anamaria Dutceac Segesten
3. Challenging the 'Holocaust-reflex': Imre Kerte;sz's Fatelessness: A Novel; Anders Ohlsson
4. Ulrike and the War: World War II, Mass Dictatorship and Nazism in the Eyes of a German Girl ; Bibi Jonsson
5. Through the eyes of a child: Childhood and Mass Dictatorship in Modern European Literature; Karin Nykvist
6. Is Fictional Literature Incapable of Imagining the Shoah?; Bjorn Larsson
7. Politics, Imagination and Everyday Life in Nadine Gordimer's The Pickup; Seonjoo Park
8. Innocence by Association? Everyday Nazism on DVD; Mats Johansson
9. The Good, the Bad and the Collaborators: Swedish World War II Guilt Redefined in Twenty-First Century Crime Fiction?; Kerstin Bergman
10. Who are 'we'?: The Dynamics of Consent and Coercion in Yi Mun-gu's Our Neighbourhood; Shin Hyung-ki
11. Swedish Proletarians towards Freedom. Ideals of Participation as Propaganda in the Communist Children's Press of the 1920s; Jimmy Vulovic
12. The Masses in Their Own Write (and Draw): A Heroes' Register from the Great Cultural Revolution in Yunnan; Michael Schoenhals
Postscript; Naoki Sakai.
Imagining Mass Dictatorships : The Individual and the Masses in Literature and Cinema. ISBN 9781137330680. Published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2013. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.