Antifascist Conversations

A Literary Political Geography

Authors

  • Felicitas Kuebler Institute of Geography and Regional Studies, University of Klagenfurt, Klagenfurt
  • Matthias Naumann Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg

Keywords:

political geography, Far Right, transformation, memory, East German #baseballschlägerjahre

Abstract

The hashtag baseballschlägerjahre (years of the baseball bat) recently ignited a public debate concerning the ubiquity of far-right violence in post-reunification East Germany. Numerous adolescents of the 1990s and early 2000s shared their experiences with far-right violence at that time. In recent years, a notable number of books by young East German authors have been published that address this experience. We argue in this essay that these books can provide pathways for three major conversations: 1) between the political and literary geographies of far-right violence, 2) about the legacies of historical far-right violence and how they continue to unfold in the region, and 3) between literature, academia, and activism.

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Published

2024-10-30 — Updated on 2024-10-30

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Issue

Vol. 10 No. 2 (2024)

Section

Thinking Space

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