Diskurse des Kalten Krieges

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The study analyses Cold War discourses in Austrian post-war literature, a subject that so far has been neglected in Austrian literary history. Through extensive research, 50 mainly unknown or little acknowledged novels, stories, plays and scenes were discovered which discuss phenomena of the Cold War that defined the first post-war decades. The theoretical focus on New Historicism allows an analysis of a broad spectrum of thematic clusters, images, discursive constellations and narratives which are contextualised both in national and international Cold War discourse./ In 15 chapters, the study discusses the discursive patterns of more than 50 rather unknown books from Austrian literature from the period 1945 to 1966, such as constructions and imaginations of borders, fictive travels behind the Iron Curtain, the Gulag, and metaphors of disease and narratives of espionage. These discourse patterns are positioned within the context of the Cold War.

Description

The study analyses Cold War discourses in Austrian post-war literature, a subject that so far has been neglected in Austrian literary history. Through extensive research, 50 mainly unknown or little acknowledged novels, stories, plays and scenes were discovered which discuss phenomena of the Cold War that defined the first post-war decades. The theoretical focus on New Historicism allows an analysis of a broad spectrum of thematic clusters, images, discursive constellations and narratives which are contextualised both in national and international Cold War discourse./ In 15 chapters, the study discusses the discursive patterns of more than 50 rather unknown books from Austrian literature from the period 1945 to 1966, such as constructions and imaginations of borders, fictive travels behind the Iron Curtain, the Gulag, and metaphors of disease and narratives of espionage. These discourse patterns are positioned within the context of the Cold War. Die Studie behandelt mit den Diskursen des Kalten Krieges in der österreichischen Nachkriegsliteratur einen bislang vernachlässigten Bereich der österreichischen Literaturgeschichte. Mittels umfangreicher Recherchen wurden über 50 bisher weitgehend unbekannte oder wenig beachtete Romane, Erzählungen, Dramen und Szenenfolgen ermittelt, die sich mit dem die ersten Nachkriegsjahrzehnte bestimmenden Epochenphänomen des Kalten Krieges auseinandersetzen. Die theoretische Orientierung am New Historicism führt zur Analyse eines breiten Spektrums von Bildfeldern, thematischen Bündeln, diskursiven Konstellationen und Narrativen, die innerhalb der nationalen und internationalen Diskurse des Kalten Krieges kontextualisiert werden.Die insgesamt 15 Kapitel des Buches widmen sich den zentralen diskursiven Mustern von über 50 wenig bekannten Texten aus der österreichischen Literatur zwischen 1945 und 1966 wie z.B. den Konstruktionen und Imaginationen der Grenze, fiktiven Reisen hinter den Eisernen Vorhang, dem Gulag, Krankheitsmetaphern und Spionagenarrativen, die im Spannungsfeld des Kalten Krieges verortet werden.

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• Diskurse des Kalten KriegesBöhlau2017-01-01
• Diskurse des Kalten KriegesBöhlau