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IMPLICATION IN YOUNG ADULT NOVELS ABOUT THE GDR: HISTORICAL FICTION FOR A DEMOCRATIC FUTURE

open access: yesGerman Life and Letters, Volume 79, Issue 4, Page 472-494, October 2026.
ABSTRACT This article examines the pedagogical potential of young adult literature about East Germany to help readers reflect on the legacies of authoritarian rule and questions of responsibility, accountability and agency. Drawing on Michael Rothberg's concept of the implicated subject, I argue that young adult literature exploring implication offers ...
Kristin Rebien
wiley   +1 more source

AFFECT, AUTOFICTION, PARODY: NEGOTIATING IMPLICATION IN CHRISTIAN KRACHT'S EUROTRASH AND MAXIM BILLER'S DER FALSCHE GRUẞ

open access: yesGerman Life and Letters, Volume 79, Issue 4, Page 557-579, October 2026.
Abstract Christian Kracht's assertion that everything that takes itself too seriously is ripe for parody frames this analysis of Eurotrash (2021) and Maxim Biller's Der falsche Gruß (2021), novels in which the postmemory generation navigates inherited legacies of violence, injustice and abuse, as well as of wealth and privilege.
Karin Bauer
wiley   +1 more source

Utopia Remembers: The Soviet Past in the Imagined Communist Future

open access: yesThe Russian Review, Volume 85, Issue 4, Page 478-494, October 2026.
Abstract After a twenty‐five‐year hiatus, the reappearance of utopian literature in 1957 prompted Soviet literary watchdogs to corral the subgenre into an ideologically‐acceptable mold. A key requirement was for future generations to be depicted as reverently commemorating the past.
Antony Kalashnikov
wiley   +1 more source

(Re)inventing Genocide: Legal and Political Implications of the “Genocide of Soviet People” in (Post‐)Soviet Russia

open access: yesThe Russian Review, Volume 85, Issue 4, Page 513-529, October 2026.
Abstract This article examines the emergence and instrumentalization of the concept of the “genocide of the Soviet people” in both Soviet and post‐Soviet contexts, tracing its historical evolution and contemporary use in chronological perspective.
Dmitry Dubrovskiy, Irina Rebrova
wiley   +1 more source

Teleological Thought in Neo-Salafi Movements (ISIS) [PDF]

open access: yes‫سیاست متعالیه‏
This study aims to answer the question: What impact has teleological thinking had on the political and social actions of neo-Salafi movements? The research method is descriptive-analytical, utilizing discourse analysis techniques.
Bahman Etminan, Ali Reza Amini
doaj   +1 more source

Transnational system building across geopolitical shifts: The Danube-Oder-Elbe Canal, 1901-2015

open access: yesWater Alternatives, 2016
We study the politics of water infrastructure through the Large Technical Systems (LTS) literature, which examines human agency in the dynamics of complex sociotechnical systems.
Jiří Janáč , Erik van der Vleuten
doaj  

The msi and the role of fascism in Italian political culture

open access: yesStudia Historica: Historia Contemporánea, 2013
This paper analyzes the role of the italian social movement in Italy (MSI) in the twentieth century. The key to understand its influence would lie in the peculiarities of the political regime emerged from the ruins of fascism.
Ferran GALLEGO
doaj  

FRANZ WERFEL AS A CULTURAL CRITIC. INDIVIDUALISM, COLLECTIVISM AND THE MORAL-AESTHETIC TASK OF A POET

open access: yesArmenian Folia Anglistika
This article is dedicated to the 90th anniversary of the heroic novel The Forty Days of Musa Dagh created by great Austrian writer and humanist Franz Werfel. With this novel Franz Werfel created a literary monument to the Armenian people.
Roy Knocke
doaj   +1 more source

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