Changing the nation
Subtitle: Günter Grass in international perspective
By: edited by Rebecca Braun and Frank Brunssen
Publisher: Königshausen & Neumann
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Würzburg
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9783826038259
Copyright date: 2008
Subjects: Congresses; Criticism and interpretation
Notes: "...[T]he Liverpool Günter Grass conference ... laid the groundwork for this volume in September 2007"--P. 5.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 'Even the flowering of art isn't pure': Günter Grass's figures of shame  -- Michael Minden; title: Indispensable, inadequate narratives: on reading Grass's oeuvre with Lacan  -- Timothy B. Malchow; title: Günter Grass's lateness: reading Grass with Adorno and Said  -- Karen Leeder; title: Memory, myth, and the migrant experience in W.G. Sebald's Austerlitz, Günter Grass's The tin drum, and Salman Rushdie's Midnight's children  -- Peter Arnds; title: 'According to his inner geography, the Spree flowed into the Rhône': Too far afield and France  -- Julian Preece; title: 'Speak out!': Günter Grass as an international intellectual  -- Frank Brunssen; title: Günter Grass and Paweł Huelle: Pilenz and Mahlke in post-war Poland  -- Pawel C. Wozniak; title: Men without a country: Kurt Vonnegut's readings of Günter Grass  -- Sascha Seiler; title: Günter Grass's 'Danzig quintet,' Alltagsgeschichte, and the historiography of National Socialism  -- Katharina Hall; title: Peeling the onion by Günter Grass: from survivor memory to postmemory, and the issue of a responsible European culture of memory  -- Helena Gonçalves da Silva; title: The tin drummer marches on: the post-Wende reception of Günter Grass in the United States  -- Siegfried Mews; title: From 'good German' to 'typical Nazi': the reception of Günter Grass in Australia and New Zealand  -- Alexandra Ludewig; title: Günter Grass as a world author -- Rebecca Braun.