Comrades in Arms
Without question, the East German National People’s Army was a profoundly masculine institution, not simply in terms of its overwhelmingly male makeup but in the traditional ideals of stoicism, sacrifice, and physical courage that it sought to exemplify. Nonetheless, as this innovative study of the...
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2021
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| description | Without question, the East German National People’s Army was a profoundly masculine institution, not simply in terms of its overwhelmingly male makeup but in the traditional ideals of stoicism, sacrifice, and physical courage that it sought to exemplify. Nonetheless, as this innovative study of the army’s cultural representations demonstrates, depictions of the military in East German film and literature were far more nuanced and ambivalent. Departing from past studies that have found in such depictions an unchanging, idealized masculinity, Representing the East German Soldier shows how cultural works both before and after reunification portrayed violence, physical vulnerability, military theatricality, and the powerful emotions and desires of conscripts to explore a surprisingly wide range of complex and contested masculinities. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-306022025-07-30T17:42:23Z Comrades in Arms Smith, Tom History Europe Germany thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history Without question, the East German National People’s Army was a profoundly masculine institution, not simply in terms of its overwhelmingly male makeup but in the traditional ideals of stoicism, sacrifice, and physical courage that it sought to exemplify. Nonetheless, as this innovative study of the army’s cultural representations demonstrates, depictions of the military in East German film and literature were far more nuanced and ambivalent. Departing from past studies that have found in such depictions an unchanging, idealized masculinity, Representing the East German Soldier shows how cultural works both before and after reunification portrayed violence, physical vulnerability, military theatricality, and the powerful emotions and desires of conscripts to explore a surprisingly wide range of complex and contested masculinities. 2021-02-10T13:43:16Z 2021-02-10T13:43:16Z 2020-12-15T14:16:53Z 2020 book OCN: 1283031342 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/44015 9781789204636 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/30602 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/44015/1/external_content.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/44015/1/external_content.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/44015/1/external_content.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/44015/1/external_content.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/44015/1/external_content.pdf Berghahn Books Berghahn Books 8d7e77e2-a9ef-4fa2-9734-1f126d55c330 Knowledge Unlatched 9781789204636 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) KU Select 2019: HSS Frontlist Books Berghahn Books open access |
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