6: Der Butt: The Struggle for Communicative Dominance

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. List of Abbreviations ix
5. Introduction 1
6. Part I. Speech and Survival: Precarious Identities in the Danzig Trilogy
7. 1: Die Blechtrommel: The Language of Judgment 11
8. 2: Katz und Maus: Empty Words and Dangerous Rhetoric 29
9. 3: Hundejahre: Between Revelation and Obfuscation 42
10. Part II. Educating the Public: Democracy and Dialogue in the Mid-Career Novels
11. 4: Örtlich betäubt: Student Protest and Pedagogical Dialogue 59
12. 5: Aus dem Tagebuch einer Schnecke: Family Conversations and Political Speech 69
13. 6: Der Butt: The Struggle for Communicative Dominance 81
14. 7: Das Treffen in Telgte: Debates in a Literary Forum 95
15. 8: Die Rättin: Existence and Speech after Apocalypse 106
16. Part III. Confronting Memory: Cross-Cultural Encounters in Post-Wall Fiction
17. 9: Unkenrufe: East-West Exchanges and the Remembrance Business 119
18. 10: Ein weites Feld: Rhetorical Performance in the New Berlin 129
19. 11: Mein Jahrhundert: An Exercise in Oral History 145
20. 12: Im Krebsgang: Facing a Discourse of Hatred 158
21. Part IV. The Mediated Self: Communicative Approaches in Autobiography
22. 13: Beim Häuten der Zwiebel: Dialogues with Memory 173
23. 14: Die Box: Conversations around the Family Album 192
24. 15: Grimms Wörter: Deliberations on Language and Legacy 203
25. Epilogue: Taking Leave in Vonne Endlichkait 220
26. Notes 225
27. Bibliography 263
28. Index 281