An Emotional State: The Politics of Emotion in Postwar West German Culture

by Anna M. Parkinson

Book Overview

This literary-historical study seeks to dismantle the prevailing notion that Germany, in the period following the Second World War, exhibited an "inability to mourn," arguing that in fact this period experienced a surge of affect. Anna Parkinson examines the emotions explicitly manifested or addressed in a variety of German cultural artifacts, while also identifying previously unacknowledged (and undertheorized) affective structures implicitly at...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472036815
• ISBN13: 9780472036813
• Release Date: January 2017
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"