The Migrant Vision in Günter Grass’s The Tin Drum

Abstract

"this article concentrates neither on language nor on overall narrative form but on the enunciatory strategies with specific regard to the narrator’s position and point of view in The Tin Drum. The principal question that this article will pursue is how the narrator contributes to the migrant vision in Grass’s novels, and it will do so by first setting up a theoretical framework comprising Walter Benjamin and Theodor W. Adorno’s reflections on the storyteller and the narrator, second by introducing other novelists’ narrative strategies and thereby situating Grass within the historical traditions of the novel, and, third, by analyzing key passages in The Tin Drum."