Secret police files from the Eastern Bloc : between surveillance and life writing

General Information

Language
English.
Published
Rochester, N.Y. : Camden House, 2016.
Physical Description
viii, 237 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Series
Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture

Contributors

Contributor
Glajar, Valentina, 1963- (editor)
Lewis, Alison, 1958- (editor)
Petrescu, Corina L., 1976- (editor)

Subjects

Subject
Espionage > Communist countries > History > 20th century.
Espionage > Europe, Eastern > History > 20th century.
Police > Communist countries > History > 20th century.
Police > Europe, Eastern > History > 20th century.
Autobiography > Case studies.
Biography > Case studies.

Bibliographic Information

Responsibility
edited by Valentina Glajar, Alison Lewis, and Corina L. Petrescu.
Content
Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction / Alison Lewis, Valentina Glajar, and Corina L. Petrescu -- File stories -- The secret lives and files of stasi collaborators : reading the files for identity and habitus / Alison Lewis -- "You'll never make a spy out of me" : the file story of "Fink Susanne" / Valentina Glajar -- Witness for the prosecution : Eginald Schlattner in the files of the securitate / Corina L. Petrescu -- Files, memory, and biography -- Collaboration as collapse in the life writing and Stasi shadow-documents of Monika Maron and Christa Wolf / Annie Ring -- Perpetrator as victim in Jana Dohring's stasiratte / Carol Anne Costabile-Heming -- Performing files and surveillance -- Before "It gets all wiped out" : document-affect and history-effect in the Hungarian performance apaches on the Danube / Aniko Szucs -- The stasi files on center stage : life writing, witnessing, and memory in recent performance / Ulrike Garde -- Surveillance and the senses in a documentary portrait of Radio Free Europe / Yuliya Komska -- Notes on the contributors -- Index.

Holdings

Item Type Current Location Collection Call Number Volume Info Shelving Location Public Note
BookOSA Archivum LibraryReference collection363.29309430 GLAReference-

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