Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Beyond Militancy; Part 1. Militant Acts; 1. The Red Decade and Its Cultural Fallout; 2. Damaged Lives of the Far Left: Reading the RAF in Reverse; 3. Buildings on Fire: The Situationist International and the Red Army Faction; Part II. Postmilitant Culture; 4. The Stammheim Complex in Marianne and Juliane; 5. Violence and the Tendenzwende: Engendering Victims in the Novel and Film; 6. Anatomies of Protest and Resistance: Meinhof, Fischer; 7. Regarding Terror at the Berlin Kunst-Werke; Afterword: Signs of a New Season; Notes; Works Cited; Index
Summary
This study uses critical theory to answer key gender-related questions about the Red Army Faction (RAF), which terrorised West Germany from the 1970s to the 1990s. The questions include: Why were women so prominent in the RAF? And what does the continuing cultural response to the German armed struggle tell us about the representation of violence, power, and gender today? The book analyses works by pivotal writers and artists that point beyond militancy and terrorism to disclose the failures of the Far Left and register the radical potential that RAF women actually forfeited
