Comrades in Arms

Military Masculinities in East German Culture

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Tom Smith

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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.

Author Biography:

Tom Smith is a Lecturer in the School of Modern Languages at the University of St Andrews.

Release date Australia

February 3rd, 2020

Author

Tom Smith

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Pages

280

ISBN-13

9781789205558

Product ID

31110778

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