Violence Elsewhere 1

<b>Explores the significance of postwar German representations of violence in other places and times.</b><br><br><br>Germany's twentieth-century history has made imagining and representing violence in German culture challenging meaning that it can be difficult to locate and explore critically the significance of violence in and for the postwar German states. This volume approaches that challenge through critical analysis of violence elsewhere that is constructions of violence in distant imagined or temporally distinct times and places. Such representations have offered a stage on which to imagine violence. Moreover German representations of violence elsewhere are simultaneously images of Germany itself revealing something about otherwise submerged meanings and functions of violence in German culture.<br><br>The essays in this volume explore selected emblematic works from East West and later unified Germany which imagine violence in for example Latin America Vietnam Cambodia the USA and the Middle East as well as in the respective other German state and in the German past. Drawing on fields including cultural literary film visual and gender studies it introduces multidisciplinary theoretical approaches to the topic of violence elsewhere that may be transferable beyond German studies too. As such the volume allows us to reflect more broadly on relationships between violence culture community and the creation of identities and to look beyond binary notions of here and elsewhere self and other. It thus expands our understanding of what German culture is and could be.