Introduction - Valentina N. Glajar and Corina L. Petrescu and
Alison Lewis
The Secret Lives and Files of Stasi Collaborators: Reading the
Files for Identity and Habitus - Alison Lewis
"You'll Never Make a Spy Out of Me": The File Story of "Fink
Susanne" - Valentina N. Glajar
Witness for the Prosecution: Eginald Schlattner in the Files of the
Securitate - Corina L. Petrescu
Collaboration as Collapse in the Life Writing and Stasi
Shadow-Documents of Monica Maron and Christa Wolf - Annie Ring
Perpetrator as Victim in Jana Dohring's Stasiratte - Carol Anne
Costabile-Heming
Before "It Gets All Wiped Out": Document-Affect and History-Effect
in the Hungarian Performance Apaches on the Danube - Aniko
Szucs
The Stasi Files on Center Stage: Life Writinig, Witnessing, and
Memory in Recent Performance - Ulrike Garde
Surveillance and the Senses in a Documentary Portrait of Radio Free
Europe - Yuliya Komska
VALENTINA GLAJAR is Professor of German at Texas State University. VALENTINA GLAJAR is Professor of German at Texas State University.
Well researched and engagingly written . . . provides the reader
with a wealth of sources and personal accounts of secret police
influence, intervention, and collusion. . . A fascinating account
of personal reflection, blackmail, and bribery taken from the
existing files of East Germany, Hungary and Romania.
*JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY HISTORY*
The volume eloquently examines and contextualises the secret police
files past and present, and offers ways of reading and
problematising them. . . . [This book] is a much welcome
contribution for historians, political scientists, life writing and
Eastern European studies scholars.
*LIFE WRITING*
Overall the volume provides an interesting, creative and productive
insight into aspects of the legacy of the socialist regimes as well
as the Secret Police archives . . . It will be of interest to
scholars working in history and on history writing, to regional
experts, social scientists as well as literary and media
scholars.
*CONTEMPORARY CENTRAL & EASTERN EUROPE*
[T]he essays indicate the complex ways in which surveillance,
collaboration and victimhood come to colonize the bodies and minds
of all involved. . . . Th[e] collection . . . is instructive and
thought-provoking, and certainly worth a read.
*JOURNAL OF EUROPEAN STUDIES*
[This book] will not resolve the legal and ethical challenges
facing post-communist states. It does, however, invite us to
rethink how we read secret police files, and offers several
creative ways to do so. It deserves a wide readership among
scholars of the GDR and other communist regimes.
*GERMAN QUARTERLY*
[This] book is . . . an exercise in 'repurposing' this huge body of
material, in putting it to good and sometimes surprising use in
starting the process of democratizing and absorbing it into
contemporary histories and stories. Without being prescriptive, it
suggests three distinct but equally productive approaches.
*SEMINAR*
This assured and compelling volume offers differentiated readings
of file stories, while also raising important questions about how
this difficult past continues to be remembered, or forgotten,
today.
*EUROPEAN HISTORY QUARTERLY*
Takes the reader [on] a journey into the everyday life of the
darkest days of East-Central Europe. Although addressing mainly
scholarly audiences, this book also discusses issues of [wider]
interest.
*HUNGARIAN CULTURAL STUDIES*
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