in:
Tübingen ; Basel:
2017
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55-75 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Ariadne | Wien |
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| Verfasst von: | Bieber, Ada info |
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| Jahr: | 2017 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| In the early 1970s, Angela Davis was an iconic figure in the GDR, nowhere more so than among youth. The press supported solidarity campaigns for Davis, mainly organized by the FDJ (Free German Youth). Against the backdrop of Davis’s imprisonment in 1970 and her trial in 1971–72, journalistic and fictional writing as well as radio plays appeared for a young audience. The article compares the ways in which Davis appears as a political figure in literature for youth, and argues that literary portraits were dominantly shaped through the ideological discourse of antifascism and the interest to inveigh against the politics of the USA. By examining texts that were originally addressed towards young audiences or reissued for them, the article gives an account of different generic texts such as Maximilian Scheer’s radio play Der Weg nach San Rafael: Für Angela Davis (1971), the youth novel Schwarze Rose aus Alabama (1972) by Werner Lehmann, and the travelogue Unterwegs zu Angela (1973) by the German-Australian writer Walter Kaufmann. Also included are narrations in magazines such as Bummi (1973) and Neues Leben (1971; 1973). The article shows that all examples served ideological images that were communicated to youth, while distracting from Davis’s radical call for freedom of all people. | |
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| Works cited: Seiten 73-75 | |
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