LEADER 04150nam 22005892 450 001 9911008469203321 005 20151002020706.0 010 $a1-281-94921-3 010 $a9786611949211 010 $a1-57113-649-5 024 7 $a10.1515/9781571136497 035 $a(CKB)1000000000704696 035 $a(OCoLC)299740262 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10354737 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000236170 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11924789 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000236170 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10165314 035 $a(PQKB)10528448 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9781571136497 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3003621 035 $a(DE-B1597)674907 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781571136497 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000704696 100 $a20120822d2004|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aRepresentation, subversion, and eugenics in Gu?nter Grass's The tin drum /$fPeter Arnds 210 1$aSuffolk :$cBoydell & Brewer,$d2004. 215 $a1 online resource (x, 178 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 225 1 $aStudies in German literature, linguistics, and culture 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015). 311 0 $a1-57113-287-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [161]-170) and index. 327 $aRepresenting euthanasia, reclaiming popular culture -- Heteroglossia from Grimmelshausen to the Grimm brothers -- The dwarf and Nazi body politics -- Oskar's dysfunctional family and gender politics -- Oskar as fool, harlequin, and trickster, and the politics of sanity -- Gypsies, the picaresque novel, and the politics of social integration -- Epilogue: beyond Die Blechtrommel: Germans as victims in Im Krebsgang. 330 $aIn receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1999, Gu?nter Grass, a prominent and controversial figure in the ongoing discussion of the German past and reunification, finally gained recognition as Germany's greatest living author, a writer of international importance and acclaim. Grass's 1959 novel 'The Tin Drum' remains one of the most important works of literature for the construction of postwar German identity. Peter Arnds offers a completely new reading of the novel, analyzing an aspect of Grass's literary treatment of German history that has never been examined in detail: the Nazi ideology of race and eugenics, which resulted in the persecution of so-called asocials as 'life unworthy of life,' their extermination in psychiatric institutions in the Third Reich, and their marginalization in the Adenauer period. Arnds shows that in order to represent the Nazi past and subvert bourgeois paradigms of rationalism, Grass revives several facets of popular culture that National Socialism either suppressed or manipulated for its ideology of racism. In structure and content Grass's novel connects the persecution of degenerate art to the persecution and extermination of these 'asocials,' for whom the persecuted dwarf-protagonist Oskar Matzerath becomes a central metaphor and voice. This comparative study reveals that Grass creates in the novel an irrational counterculture opposed to the rationalism of Nazi science and its obsession with racial hygiene, while simultaneously exposing the continuity of this destructive rationalism in postwar Germany and the absurdity of a 'Stunde Null,' that putative tabula rasa in 1945. Peter O. Arnds is associate professor of German and Italian at Kansas State University. 410 0$aStudies in German literature, linguistics, and culture (Unnumbered) 517 3 $aRepresentation, Subversion, & Eugenics in Gu?nter Grass's 'The Tin Drum' 606 $aEugenics in literature 615 0$aEugenics in literature. 676 $a833/.914 686 $aGN 5052$qBSZ$2rvk 700 $aArnds$b Peter O.$f1963-$01826218 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9911008469203321 996 $aRepresentation, subversion, and eugenics in Gunter Grass's The tin drum$94394185 997 $aUNINA