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With apologies for cross-postings - I'm delighted to announce the publication of the following volume of collected essays on Günter Grass: Rebecca Braun & Frank Brunssen, eds, _Changing the Nation: Günter Grass in International Perspective_ (Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2008) The significance of Günter Grass's literary and political writings has all too often been discussed within the confines of a specifically German context. The essays gathered together in this volume attempt to move beyond such an interpretative paradigm by critically examining ideas of internationalism within Grass's work and by evaluating his importance as a leading German author and intellectual abroad. Established experts from Europe, North America and Australia explore the relevance of Grass's specific provenance for the development of his work, conceptualise his role as a political and cultural ambassador between Germany and the world, chart the international reception of his work and consider the impact of this reception on his standing in Germany. In so doing, they bring a fresh perspective to Grass scholarship that consciously places the author within the context of different national and international discourses and provides new interpretations of both his literary texts and his intellectual interventions. The language of the volume is English throughout. 224 pages | ISBN 978-3-8260-3825-9 Contents: Rebecca Braun & Frank Brunssen, Introduction Michael Minden, '"Even the flowering of Art isn't pure": Günter Grass's Figures of Shame' Timothy Malchow, 'Indispensable, Inadequate Narratives: On Reading Grass's Oeuvre with Lacan' Karen Leeder, 'Günter Grass's Lateness: Reading Grass with Adorno and Said' Peter Arnds, 'Memory, Myth and the Migrant Experience in W.G. Sebald's Austerlitz, Günter Grass's Tin Drum, and Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children Julian Preece, '"According to his inner geography the Spree flowed into the Rhône": Too Far Afield and France' Frank Brunssen, '"Speak Out!": Günter Grass as an International Intellectual' Pawel Wozniak, 'Günter Grass and Pawel Huelle: Pilenz and Mahlke in Post-War Poland' Sascha Seiler, 'Men Without a Country: Kurt Vonnegut's Readings of Günter Grass' Katharina Hall, 'Günter Grass's "Danzig Quintet", Alltagsgeschichte and the Historiography of National Socialism' Helena Gonçalves da Silva, 'Peeling the Onion by Günter Grass: From Survivor Memory to Postmemory and the Issue of a Responsible European Culture of Memory' Siegfried Mews, 'The Tin Drummer Marches On: The Post-Wende Reception of Günter Grass in the United States.' Alexandra Ludewig, 'From "Good German" to "Typical Nazi": Reflections on literary criticism concerning Grass in Australia and New Zealand' Rebecca Braun, 'Günter Grass as a World Author' ------------------------------- Dr Rebecca Braun Leverhulme Early Career Fellow (German) SOCLAS University of Liverpool Liverpool, L69 7ZR Constructing Authorship in the Work of Günter Grass Available now through all good bookshops, or direct from Oxford University Press at: http://www.oup.com/uk/catalogue/?ci=9780199542703 <http://www.oup.com/uk/catalogue/?ci=9780199542703>