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Günter Grass and the Genders of German Memory: From the Tin Drum to Peeling the Onion

Günter Grass and the Genders of German Memory: From the Tin Drum to Peeling the Onion

Malchow, Timothy B.

Hardcover

Series: Culture and Power in German-Speaking Europe, 1918-1989, Book 1

Literary CriticismGerman History

ISBN10: 1640140859
ISBN13: 9781640140851
Publisher: Camden House Inc
Published: Mar 15 2021
Pages: 258
Weight: 1.20
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
The first book to examine the connection between gender and memory in Grass's oeuvre, which is especially timely in light of current concerns about male privilege.

Günter Grass (1927-2015) was a fixture at the heart of German cultural life, a self-styled spokesman of the Kulturnation (cultural nation) who imagined it linking him to canonical male literary figures and their authority. He was also the object of valid feminist criticism: a rigid conception of gender permeates his works, belying his professed skepticism toward ideologies. A heterosexual male, Grass lent his representative persona a natural veneer by appropriating his era's gendered discursive constructs, including Heimat, the Bildungsroman, and narratives about German wartime victims and perpetrators. Such appropriation elevated his remembering artist's masculinity above that of the status quo's defenders and exploiters of memory.

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