""CONTENTS ""; ""ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ""; ""INTRODUCTION ""; ""1: Representing Euthanasia; Reclaiming Popular Culture""; ""2: Heteroglossia from Grimmelshausen to the Grimm Brothers""; ""3: The Dwarf and Nazi Body Politics""; ""4: Oskar�s Dysfunctional Family and Gender Politics""; ""5: Oskar as Fool, Harlequin, and Trickster, and the Politics of Sanity""; ""6: Gypsies, the Picaresque Novel, and the Politics of Social Integration""; ""EPILOGUE: Beyond Die Blechtrommel: Germans as Victims in Im Krebsgang""; ""WORKS CITED ""; ""INDEX ""