This volume in the series Mass Dictatorship in the Twentieth Century series sees twelve Swedish, Korean and Japanese scholars, theorists, and historians of fiction and non-fiction probe the literary subject of life in 20th century mass dictatorships.

Imagining Mass Dictatorships: The Individual and the Masses in Literature and Cinema , deals with different representations of mass dictatorships. The works covered are quite heterogeneous and range from the books of Nobel-prize winners Herta Muller and Imre Kertesz to Swedish proletarian youth papers of the 1920s and contemporary crime novels. The volume provides valuable insights into the representation of mass dictatorships in literature and film, relating to whether we perceive our own form of government as substantively different or not so very different at all.'- Regine Zeller, Journal of Contemporary European Studies , (2014)

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Anamaria Dutceac Segesten, Lund University, Sweden Anders Ohlsson, Lund University, Sweden Bibi Jonsson, Lund University, Sweden Karin Nykvist, Lund University, Sweden Björn Larsson, Lund University, Sweden Seonjoo Park, Inha University, Korea Mats Jonsson, Lund University, Sweden Kerstin Bergman, Lund University, Sweden Hyung-ki Shin, Yonsei University, Korea Jimmy Vulovic, Ph.D., Lund University, Sweden Professor Naoki Sakai, Cornell University, USA.

Inhalt
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