Description: An extensive look at historical, literary, and media representations of '68 in Germany, challenging the way it has been instrumentalized.
Brief description: INGO CORNILS is Professor of German Studies at the University of Leeds.
Review Quotes:
"[A]n illuminating meta-history, not so much about 1968 as about the representation and mythologization of it." --Hans Kundnani, Times Literary Supplement
"[I]ndispensable to anyone seeking to understand why '1968' is still written about and why it still matters so much in Germany." --Joachim Whaley, Journal of European Studies
"[E]xcellent. . . . The significance of Cornils's work is . . . its releasing '1968' from history, handing it over to the present. . . . [F]ills a major gap. . . ." --Modern Language Review
"[M]eticulously researched and captivatingly narrated. . . . It is especially in the[] discursive shifts [that he describes and analyzes]--[which] concur with the shifts in German politics of memory in general--that the decisive benefit of Cornils's analysis appears." --Ivana Perica, Theory & Event
"[A] meticulously researched and well executed analysis of the never-ending story of 1968, which draws on memory studies and expands on it. [Cornils's] comprehensive study is indispensable to everyone interested in understanding the meaning of the student movement in and for Germany. . . ." --Sabine von Dirke, German Studies Review