Rebecca Braun Knihy

Examines, then employs the metaphor of cultural impact in an effort to understand how culture works in the German-speaking world.

R. Braun / F. Brunssen: Einleitung – V. Neuhaus: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Nazi: The Importance of Grass‘s Provenance – M. Minden: ‘Auch die Kunst blüht nicht rein‘: Günter Grass‘s Figures of Shame – J. Preece: ‘Nach seiner inneren Geographie floß die Spree in die Rhône‘: Ein weites Feld and France – F. Brunssen: Günter Grass als internationaler Intellektueller – K. Leeder: Letzte Tänze: Günter Grass‘s Lateness – T. B. Malchow: Indispensable, Inadequate Narratives: The Evolution of Grass‘s Oeuvre in Late Modernity – K. Hall: ‘Zeugnis ablegen - im Widerspruch zur öffentlichen Geschichtsschreibung‘: Günter Grass and the Historiography of National Socialism – K. Winston: Translating Günter Grass – S. Mews: The Tin Drummer Marches On: The Post-Wende Reception of Günter Grass in the US – A. Ludewig: Vom guten Deutschen zum typischen Nazi: Günter Grass im Spiegel der Kritik in Ozeanien – P. C. Wozniak: Weiser Dawidek: Schreitet Mahlkes Doppelgänger in die polnische Wirklichkeit? – R. Braun: A Noble Winner? The Impact of International Acclaim on Grass‘s Recent Work

A challenging new reading of Grass's literary work and political writings that examines how the author has reacted to sustained public interest in his person from the mid-1960s onwards. Braun draws together an eclectic body of literary writing and suggests that questions of authorship lie at the heart of Grass's work.