{"product_id":"9781442665545","title":"Revolting Families: Toxic Intimacy, Private Politics, and Literary Realisms in the German Sixties","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eRevolting Families\u003c\/em\u003e 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. Carrie Smith-Prei focuses on debut works by German authors considered to be part of the “new” and “black” realism movements: Dieter Wellershoff, Rolf Dieter Brinkmann, Gisela Elsner, and Renate Rasp. Each of the works by these authors uses depictions of neurosis, disgust, vertigo, or violence to elicit a reaction in readers that calls them to political, social, or ethical action.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eRevolting Families \u003c\/em\u003ethus extends the concept of negativity, which has long been part of post-war German philosophical and aesthetic theory, to the body in German literature and culture. Through an analysis of these texts and of contextual discourse, Smith-Prei develops a theoretical concept of corporeal negativity that works to provoke socio-political engagement with the private sphere.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47142901743856,"sku":"9781442665545","price":83.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781442665545_p0.jpg?v=1763812561","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781442665545","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}