Imagining Mass Dictatorships: The Individual and the Masses in Literature and Cinema

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 Müller; Anamaria Dutceac Segesten 3. Challenging the 'Holocaust-reflex': Imre Kertész'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?; Björn Larsson 7. Politics, Imagination and Everyday Life in Nadine Gordimer's The Pickup; Seonjoo Park 8. Innocence by Association? Everyday Nazism on DVD; Mats Jönsson 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