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The Nobel laureate G\u00fcnter Grass (1927-2015) was at once an authoritative figure at the heart of German cultural life and the object of valid feminist criticism, largely due to his acclaimed novel\u00a0Die Blechtrommel\u00a0<\/em>(The Tin Drum<\/em>, 1959). This lecture explores Grass\u2019s appropriation of gendered cultural constructs\u2014including the\u00a0Heimat\u00a0<\/em>(homeland), the\u00a0Bildungsroman\u00a0<\/em>(novel of education),\u00a0<\/em>the\u00a0Kulturnation\u00a0<\/em>(cultural nation), and discourse on wartime victims and perpetrators\u2014to represent national trauma. He shared assumptions about gender with his conservative cultural-political rivals, weakening his efforts to inscribe authentic cultural memory of Nazism while bolstering his representative status in Germany. And yet his 2006 memoir,\u00a0Beim H\u00e4uten der Zwiebel\u00a0<\/em>(Peeling the Onion<\/em>),\u00a0<\/em>undermined that status, revealing his long suppression of his Nazi Waffen-SS service and voicing his personal mourning for his mother, a rape victim who died within a decade of World War II.
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