Widerstand und Biografie: Die widerständige Praxis der Prager Journalistin Milena Jesenská gegen den Nationalsozialismus

Lucyna Darowska

doi:10.14361/transcript.9783839417836

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How did Milena Jesenská become a member of the resistance? This question is at the heart of Lucyna Darowska's investigation, which unlocks new perspectives in interpretive biographical research within politico-historical research into the resistance to National Socialism. Beginning with New Historicism, she critically engages with various theoretical approaches in an interdisciplinary fashion, in order to approach an understanding of the motivations behind acts of resistance. Using a methodological and theoretical basis that is fitted to the object of research, she develops interpretations of acts of resistance against the Nazi regime by the Prague journalist Milena Jesenská.Research on Milena Jesensk began late, since she was mainly known amongst Western European readers as the anonymous addressee of Franz Kafka's letters. As a critic of communism, in Czechoslovakia she was veiled in silence. The first international conference on Milena Jesensk, which took place in Prague from 20-21 October 2014, showed that the previous biographical works and the international discourse on Milena Jesensk has met with extraordinary interest, and that the intensification of the research on her is urgently required. At the center of this lies both her extensive oeuvre as well as various aspects of her biography. One of the most interesting questions in Milena Jesensk's biography, which transcends research into any one individual, is the question of her resistance. She can be identified at multiple points in her biography with a staunchly resistant position, against national socialism, and from 1936, against communism, which sets Jesensk apart from so many of her contemporaries. Last but not least, the methodological questions around biographical analysis are tightly knitted together with the motivations for the practice of resistance.

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Edition: 1/2014
Copyright Year: 2014
ISBN-Print: 978-3-8376-1783-2
ISBN-Online: 978-3-8394-1783-6
Publisher: transcript, Bielefeld
Series: Edition Politik
Volume: 4
Language: German
Pages: 528
Product Type: Monograph

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Vorwort No access Pages 11 - 12
Einleitung No access Pages 13 - 34
1. New Historicism als methodischer Rahmen biografischer Analysen in der Politikwissenschaft und Forschungsdesign der Arbeit No access Pages 35 - 78
2. Strukturen widerständiger Praxis No access Pages 79 - 174
3. Milena Jesenská: Kindheit und Jugend. Chancen und Grenzen weiblicher Emanzipation nach der Wende zum 20. Jahrhundert No access Pages 175 - 228
4. Milena Jesenská: Die Entillusionierung der Mädchenträume, der Erfolg der »Frauenseite« und die Politisierung No access Pages 229 - 304
5. Politischer Journalismus und Jesenskás Konzept der Widerständigkeit No access Pages 305 - 368
6. Milena Jesenská im Widerstand No access Pages 369 - 436
7. Militante Aktionen und die Gefahr ihrer Instrumentalisierung. Widerständigkeit im Kontext der Täter/-innenperspektive. Mythos Milena No access Pages 437 - 478
8. Resümee: Das widerständige Subjekt Milena Jesenská im Spiegel ausgewählter Theorieansätze No access Pages 479 - 502
Literatur- und Quellenverzeichnis No access Pages 503 - 528