Perpetrators and Victims Blurred in the Soundscape of Wartime Mass Rallies: The Third-Generation Perspective in Marcel Beyer’s The Karnau Tapes and Kateřina Tučková’s Gerta
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/08883254241229738" target="_blank" >https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/08883254241229738</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/08883254241229738" target="_blank" >10.1177/08883254241229738</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Perpetrators and Victims Blurred in the Soundscape of Wartime Mass Rallies: The Third-Generation Perspective in Marcel Beyer’s The Karnau Tapes and Kateřina Tučková’s Gerta
Original language description
This article investigates the use of sound at mass rallies during World War II, a topic that has not been explored in depth. By using the concepts of sound memory and soundscape, the article examines how contemporary literature represents past war events, specifically focusing on how national groups and individuals are portrayed in relation to other people, places, events, and axiological systems. The analysis centres on the perspectives of third-generation authors, allowing for a deeper understanding of how the identities of perpetrators and victims are constructed and negotiated differently at the collective and individual levels. To achieve this, the article examines two literary works, Marcel Beyer's German novel The Karnau Tapes and Katerina Tuckova's Czech novel Gerta, using a combination of sound studies and literary studies. The article argues that the sensory aspects of memory and oblivion can shed light on the soundscape created by mass rallies during wartime and how this has shaped Czech and German cultural memory. However, even the third generation is not immune to the pressure of silence on certain issues, dictated by a collective need to preserve and consolidate a particular image of the nation.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60205 - Literary theory
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA22-34342S" target="_blank" >GA22-34342S: Sonic Memories of the Second World War in the Czech context in 1990–2020</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
EAST EUROPEAN POLITICS AND SOCIETIES
ISSN
0888-3254
e-ISSN
1533-8371
Volume of the periodical
39
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
18
Pages from-to
287-304
UT code for WoS article
001194745100001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85189627295