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PETER LANG - European Academic Publishers
are pleased to announce a new book by
Gary Schmidt
THE NAZI ABDUCTION OF GANYMEDE
Representations of Male Homosexuality in Postwar German Literature
Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt/M., New York, Wien, 2003.
307 pp. Studies in Modern German Literature. Vol. 95 General Editor:
Peter D. G. Brown
ISBN 3-906769-60-7 / US-ISBN 0-8204-5872-4 pb.
sFr. 84.00 / EUR* 57.70 / EUR** 53.90 / £ 35.00 / US-$ 53.95
* includes VAT - only valid for Germany and Austria
** does not include VAT
The male homosexual appears in many guises in postwar West German
literature: whether he is a sexually predatory soldier, corrupt
teacher, decadent artist, purveyor of kitsch, or powerful
industrialist, he appears almost always as an insider of the social and
political system. Writers such as Heinrich Böll, Wolfgang Koeppen and
Alfred Andersch utilized images of homosexuality in order to examine
the Nazi past and to critique the Federal Republic of Germany. Their
literary depictions are informed by discourses that circulated in the
early twentieth century, including the scientism of Magnus Hirschfeld,
the masculinism of the German youth movement and the "Gemeinschaft der
Eigenen", and the literary irony of Thomas Mann. Pre-Nazi images of
homosexuality reappear in postwar West German literature in a new
sociohistorical context, in which the meaning of the Nazi past and its
relationship to the new Federal Republic is debated on many levels.
"The Nazi Abduction of Ganymede" traces the development of a postwar
West German literary tradition that participated in parallel
developments in philosophy, psychoanalysis, and popular culture, all of
which continued to find new ways to link homosexuality with fascism.
Contents: Male homosexuality and Postwar West German Literature -
Heinrich Böll. "Billard um halbzehn". Heterosexual Family and
Homosexual State - "Der Zug war pünktlich". "Fürsorgliche Belagerung".
Pornography, Privacy, and Resistance - Wolfgang Koeppen. Criminal or
Conformist? "Tauben im Gras" - Satire and Sexuality. "Das Treibhaus" -
Thomas Mann and Decadent Homoeroticism. "Der Tod in Rom" - Alfred
Andersch. Homosexuality and Antifascism. "Die Rote". "Winterspelt".
The Author: Gary Schmidt received his Ph.D. in German literature from
Washington University in St. Louis. He has taught American Studies in
Stuttgart, Germany, and German language and literature at the
University of Minnesota. He is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor
of German at Grinnell College, where he teaches contemporary German
culture. He is the author of "Koeppen-Andersch-Böll: Homosexualität in
der deutschen Nachkriegsliteratur" (Hamburg, 2000).
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