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Comrades in arms : military masculinities in East German culture

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Date
17/02/2020
Author
Smith, Thomas Allan
Keywords
Masculinity
Military
East Germany
GDR
Queer
Gender
Literature
Film
Television
DD Germany
BDC
R2C
~DC~
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Abstract
Without question, the East German National People’s Army was a profoundly masculine institution that emphasized traditional ideals of stoicism, sacrifice, and physical courage. Nonetheless, as this innovative study demonstrates, depictions of the military in the film and literature of the GDR were far more nuanced and ambivalent. Departing from past studies that have found in such portrayals an unchanging, idealized masculinity, Comrades in Arms shows how cultural works both before and after reunification place violence, physical vulnerability, and military theatricality, as well as conscripts’ powerful emotions and desires, at the center of soldiers’ lives and the military institution itself.
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Smith , T A 2020 , Comrades in arms : military masculinities in East German culture . Berghahn , New York . < https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/SmithComrades >
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© 2020 Tom Smith. This work is published subject to a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported License. The terms of the license can be found at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. For uses beyond those covered in the license contact Berghahn Books.
 
© 2020 Tom Smith. This work is published subject to a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported License. The terms of the license can be found at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. For uses beyond those covered in the license contact Berghahn Books.
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/19566

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