Description: Gnter Grass and the Genders of German Memory by Professor Timothy B. Malchow, Timothy B. Malchow The first book to examine the connection between gender and memory in Grasss oeuvre, which is especially timely in light of current concerns about male privilege. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description The first book to examine the connection between gender and memory in Grasss oeuvre, which is especially timely in light of current concerns about male privilege.Gunter 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 eras gendered discursive constructs, including Heimat, the Bildungsroman, and narratives about German wartime victims and perpetrators. Such appropriation elevated his remembering artists masculinity above that of the status quos defenders and exploiters of memory.This book is the first to evaluate the connection between gender and memory in Grasss oeuvre and its legacy in light of current concerns about male privilege. It highlights his breakthrough novel The Tin Drum (1959) and his memoir Peeling the Onion (2006). The former establishes the gendered persona that Grass would develop in subsequent decades to relate contemporary issues to Nazi-era memories. The latter reclaims the novels autobiographical material but fails to account for his decades-long silence about having served in the Nazi Waffen-SS. Instead, it foregrounds his mourning for his mother, allowing for a more personal reading of his oeuvre and its gendered imagery. Author Biography TIMOTHY B. MALCHOW is Professor of German at Valparaiso University. Table of Contents AcknowledgmentsAbbreviations, Translations, and TranscriptionsIntroductionGrasss Biography in Context: 1927-1959Corporeal Memory, Trauma, and Art in The Tin DrumBildung, Heimat, and Gendered Modes of German Memory in The Tin DrumA Patriarchal Arbiter of German Cultural Memory and His Feminized Others: Leveling Bildung, Opening Heimat, and Championing Art from the 1960s to the New MillenniumGrasss Early Life Once Again: Broken Silence, Mourning, and Gendered Approaches to Memory in Peeling the OnionEpilogueWorks Cited Review Timothy Malchows study is a noteworthy, timely and needed contribution to the existing scholarship on Grass as it approaches his oeuvre through the lens of memory and gender, two concepts that are - so Malchows core argument - inextricably linked in Grasss works. -- MONATSHEFTEMalchows book is original, even ground-breaking, in showing how Grass draws on two fundamentally German modes of discourse, the Bildungsroman and the Heimat motif (often enacted in another prose genre, the Heimatroman) to shape his narratives and guide his exploration of German memory, particularly as it relates to the question of guilt and innocence, victimhood and perpetration, with respect to the period of National Socialist rule. . . . [The book] constitutes a noteworthy contribution to Grass scholarship . . . . Excellent . . . . -- John Pizer * GERMAN STUDIES REVIEW *Including admirably researched considerations of literary genres, education, homeland (Heimat), memory, trauma, and sexuality, this is a multifaceted and satisfying portrait of the literary artist as a man. -- J. M. Jeep * CHOICE *Throughout his book, Malchow makes a strong case for the connection between gender-coded imagery and the process of memory and memory creation in the two works. . . . By establishing the link between gender and memory, Malchow opens an additional avenue for Grass scholars to explore in assessing the authors work. -- Adrian Chubb * GERMAN QUARTERLY * Review Quote Timothy Malchows study is a noteworthy, timely and needed contribution to the existing scholarship on Grass as it approaches his oeuvre through the lens of memory and gender, two concepts that are - so Malchows core argument - inextricably linked in Grasss works. Details ISBN1640140859 Language English Year 2021 ISBN-10 1640140859 ISBN-13 9781640140851 Format Hardcover Series Number 1 Pages 258 Publisher Boydell & Brewer Ltd Place of Publication Columbia, MD Country of Publication United States Illustrations No Author Timothy B. Malchow AU Release Date 2021-03-15 NZ Release Date 2021-03-15 US Release Date 2021-03-15 Publication Date 2021-03-15 UK Release Date 2021-03-15 Subtitle From The Tin Drum to Peeling the Onion Series Culture and Power in German-Speaking Europe, 1918-1989 Imprint Camden House Inc DEWEY 833.914 Audience Professional & Vocational Alternative 9781800100329 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:131253253;
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Book Title: Gunter Grass and the Genders of German Memory: from the Tin Drum to Peeling the Onion
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Author: Professor Timothy B. Malchow
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Topic: Literature
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Publication Year: 2021
Number of Pages: 258 Pages
