Revolting Families
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Revolting Families

Toxic Intimacy, Private Politics, and Literary Realisms in the German Sixties

  1. 216 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Revolting Families

Toxic Intimacy, Private Politics, and Literary Realisms in the German Sixties

About this book

Revolting Families places the literary depiction of familial and intimate relations in 1960s West Germany against the backdrop of public discourse on the political significance of the private sphere.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. Introduction: On Realism, Negativity, and Intimacy
  4. Chapter One. Trauma, Neurosis, and the Postwar Family: Dieter Wellershoff’s Politics of Reading
  5. Chapter Two. Repression, Disgust, and Adolescent Memories: Rolf Dieter Brinkmann’s Ethics of Textual Freedom
  6. Chapter Three. Consumption, Vertigo, and Childhood Visions: Gisela Elsner’s Grotesque Repetitions as Resistance
  7. Chapter Four. Discipline, Love, and Authoritative Child-Rearing: Renate Rasp’s Satire as Pedagogical Tool
  8. Conclusion
  9. Notes
  10. Works Cited
  11. Index