The Politics of Remembrance in the Novels of Gu, Cole..

Taylor & Francis

The Politics of Remembrance in the Novels of Gnter GrassAuthor(s): Alex Donovan Cole\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032231648, 978-1032231648\nSynopsis\nThis manuscript argues for the importance of Gnter 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 Grasss trajectory as a thinker through his novels and speeches. Primarily, I draw attention to the role memory plays in Grasss thought: that his work represented an intellectual and aesthetic response to the role Nazism continued to play in West German politics in the post war era. To Grass, Nazism represented a resurgent threat unaddressed following the end of World War II. Later, Grass amended his concept of memory politics to address neoliberal capitalism, reiterating his radical.