TY - BOOK ID - 25112936 TI - Baader-Meinhof returns : history and cultural memory of German left-wing terrorism AU - Berendse, Gerrit-Jan AU - Cornils, Ingo PY - 2008 SN - 9789042023918 PB - Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, DB - UniCat KW - Criminology. Victimology KW - History of Germany and Austria KW - anno 1900-1999 KW - Politique et littérature KW - Terrorisme KW - Extrême gauche KW - Rote Armee Fraktion KW - Dans l'art KW - Dans la littérature KW - Au cinéma KW - Dans l'art. KW - Dans la littérature. KW - Au cinéma. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:25112936 AB - This volume is dedicated to the study of artistic and historical documents that recall German left-wing terrorism in the 1970s. It is intended to contribute to a better understanding of this violent epoch in Germany's recent past and the many ways it is remembered. The cultural memory of the RAF past is a useful device to disentangle the complex relationship between terror and the arts. This bond has become a particularly pressing matter in an era of a new, so-called global terrorism when the culture industry is obviously fascinated with terror. Fourteen scholars of visual cultures and contemporary literature offer in-depth investigations into the artistic process of engaging with West Germany's era of political violence in the 1970s. The assessments are framed by two essays from historians: one looks back at the previously ignored anti-Semitic context of 1970s terrorism, the other offers a thought-provoking epilogue on the extension of the so-called Stammheim syndrome to the debate on the treatment of prisoners in Guantanamo Bay. The contributions on cultural memory argue that any future memory of German left-wing terrorism will need to acknowledge the inseparable bond between terror and the artistic response it produces. ER -