The Proletarian Dream: Socialism, Culture, and Emotion in Germany, 1863–1933

ISBN-13: 9783110549362 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 383 str.

Sabine Hake

Opis

The series publishes monographs and edited volumes that showcase significant scholarly work at the various intersections that currently motivate interdisciplinary inquiry in German cultural studies. Topics span German-speaking lands and cultures from the 18th to the 21st century, with a special focus on demonstrating how various disciplines and new theoretical and methodological paradigms work across disciplinary boundaries to create knowledge and add to critical understanding in German studies. The series editor is a renowned professor of German studies in the United States who penned one of the foundational texts for understanding what interdisciplinary German cultural studies can be. All works are peer-reviewed and in English. Three new titles will be published annually. About the series editor:
Irene Kacandes is the Dartmouth Professor of German Studies and Comparative Literature at Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire. She received three degrees from Harvard University and also studied at the Free University of Berlin and Aristotle University in Thessaloniki, Greece. She publishes on a wide range of interdisciplinary topics including secondary orality, rhetoric, aesthetics, trauma, witnessing, family and generational memory, experimental life writing, Holocaust testimony, and narrative theory. She has lectured widely in the United States and Europe and currently serves as President of the International Society for the Study of Narrative and Vice President of the German Studies Association.

The proletariat never existed-but it had a profound effect on late nineteenth and early twentieth century German culture. Covering a wide range of class-based art forms, literary genres, practices, and discourses, this interdisciplinary study presents these forgotten archives as part of an elusive collective imaginary that modeled what it meant-and even more important, how it felt-to claim the name "proletarian" with pride, hope, and conviction.

Recenzje

"Dieser eher unauffällig daherkommende historische Band über den "proletarischen Traum" ist 200 Jahre nach Marx' Geburt und 50 Jahre nach "1968" ein hoch politisches Buch - mit der interessanten Frage, wie sich der Sozialismus als soziale Bewegung über seine kulturellen Diskurse und Praktiken in die deutsche Geschichte eingeschrieben hat. [...] Sabine Hakes angekündigtes Folgebuch über den "proletarischen Traum" von 1933 bis zum Ende der 1980er-Jahre kann mit Spannung erwartet werden."
Rebecca Menzel in: h-soz-kult, 10.04.2018, http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/rezensionen/2018-2-017

"But labour historians might also welcome the opportunity for dialogue with new methodologies and new analytical foci that Hake's work offers -such a dialogue might help to refresh a field of history which has been relatively neglected in much recent historiography."
Andrew G. Bonnell in: European History Quarterly 49.1 (2019), 127-129

O autorze

Sabine Hake, University of Texas at Austin, USA.