Baader-Meinhof and the Novel

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).

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