Baader-Meinhof and the Novel

The Baader-Meinhof Group and other violent underground organizations have provided material to many novels by leading German and international writers. This book is the first to examine this rich literary corpus, treating it as a political unconscious which expresses submerged anxieties and moral blind-spots in Europe's most powerful country.

Autorentext
JULIAN PREECE is a Professor of German Studies at Swansea University and Director of its Research Centre into Contemporary German Culture. He is the author (with Waldemar Lotnik) of Nine Lives: Ethnic Conflict in the Polish-Ukrainian Borderlands (1999), The Life and Work of Günter Grass: Literature, History, Politics (2001), and Out of the Shadows of a Husband: The Rediscovered Writings of Veza Canetti (2007).

Inhalt
Acknowledgements Abbreviations and Specialist Terms A Note on Translation and Citation Preface A Brief History Introduction: The Baader-Meinhof Myth Machine 1. Avoiding the Subject: Six Tropes in Sixty-Eighter Fiction 2. From Stechlin to Stammheim: F.C. Delius as Pioneer 3. Re-Telling the Classics: Baader-Meinhof and the German Literary Canon 4. Terrorism and the Popular Imaginary: Conspiracies and Counterfactuals 5. Baader-Meinhof Translated: From Die Hard to al Qaeda 6. RAF Revivalism in the 2000s Conclusions Bibliography Index