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University of Edinburgh
Reviews
[S]hould ignite more interest [in Meinhof in the English-speaking world] . . . . [A]n important contribution to the scholarly literature. . . . Affords an opportunity for monolingual students and scholars to explore the unique experience of West German terrorism and its evolution out of a student movement haunted by the history of the Nazis. * MONATSHEFTE *
Throughout [Colvin] writes with the stylistic assurance which comes from complete mastery of her subject . . . . This is a . . . thoroughly good book which will be required reading for anyone interested in '1968,' the German Student Movement, Baader-Meinhof terrorism, or Meinhof biography. * MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW *
Unusual is that the author conducted archival study, and as a result, is able, by means of publication of excerpts from texts from Meinhof's literary remains, to make substantial contributions to the - now as ever - current discussion about the RAF. . . . Colvin is able to show precisely how the readiness for violent 'resistance,' which had been reached well before 1968, is laid down in Meinhof's texts. Even in German-language works, no one has approached the author Ulrike Meinhof to this degree. . . . * LITERATURKRITIK.DE *
Archival work at the Hamburg Institute for Social Research expands the base of published sources for [Colvin's] argument and sheds important light on the editorial practices at play in the publication of Meinhof's and the RAF's prison writings. . . . [E]ffectively contests popular accounts of Meinhof's relation to the RAF as a collective. Colvin draws on unpublished archival documents to demonstrate how Meinhof attempted to describe a new, feminine writing of resistance and negotiate the complex relation of individual to collective authorship . . . . * GERMAN STUDIES REVIEW *
Book Information
ISBN 9781571134158
Author Sarah Colvin
Format Hardback
Page Count 282
Imprint Camden House Inc
Publisher Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Weight(grams) 1g