Representation, Subversion, and Eugenics in Günter Grass's the Tin Drum

by Peter Arnds and Eric Langhammer

A new reading of Grass's novel, emphasizing its treatment of the Nazi ideology of race and eugenics as it applied to asocials.

In receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1999, G?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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1571132872
• ISBN13: 9781571132871
• Release Date: August 2004
• Publisher: Camden House (NY)
• Length: 188 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"