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Medientyp:
Buch
Titel:
The Icon Curtain
:
the Cold War's quiet border
Enthält:
Conditions : ruins of the Cold War -- Cornerstones : iconoclasm and the making of the prayer wall -- Infrastructure : civilian border travel and travelogues -- Uses : visual nostalgia at the prayer wall -- Epilogue : tragic frames.
Anmerkungen:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:
"Komska examines the ways in which former Sudeten Germans narrativized the border in both text and image. She analyzes, in other words, the cultural productions and practices of Sudeten Germans themselves. In so doing, she excavates a body of sources that has thus far completely eluded the attention of historians, anthropologists, or literary critics. With considerable skill and energy, Komska deploys a multiplicity of disciplinary perspectives to her multifaceted source body. What emerges from this analysis is not a series of loosely related case studies but rather a specific and quite imaginary world, a set of fantasies that sought to reconcile traditional attachment to an always contested homeland with the new reality of an increasingly impermeable Cold War border. This is one of the most erudite, well-written, and original analyses of the cultural history of the Cold War that I am aware of." -- Frank Biess, University of California, San Diego