1st Edition

The Politics of Remembrance in the Novels of Günter Grass

By Alex Donovan Cole Copyright 2023
148 Pages
by Routledge

148 Pages
by Routledge

148 Pages
by Routledge

This manuscript argues for the importance of Günter Grass as a political thinker in addition to his status as a novelist and public intellectual, capable of forming ethical responses to contemporary issues like neoliberalism and place of the petit bourgeoisie in social life. I define Grass’s trajectory as a thinker through his novels and speeches. Primarily, I draw attention to the role memory... Read more

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1 – Introduction: Class, Politics, and Memory

Chapter 2 – The Petite Bourgeoisie in the Danzig Trilogy, 1959-1965

Chapter 3 – "A Literary Concept": The Kulturnation in the Divided Germany, 1965-1979

Chapter 4 – "Distant but not Foreign": Memory Politics and the Future of Remembrance, 1980-2006

Chapter 5 – Conclusion: Penelope and Sisyphus

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Biography

Alex Donovan Cole is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Northeastern State University in Tahlequah, OK, specializing in Politics and Literature, German Political Thought, and Comparative Political Economy. He has undertaken education at Columbus State University, Columbus, GA; Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA; and Regent’s Park College, Oxford University, Oxford, England.