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Speaking the Unspeakable in Postwar Germany : Toward a Public Discourse on the Holocaust.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought SeriesPublisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2014Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (244 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780801471957
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Speaking the Unspeakable in Postwar GermanyDDC classification:
  • 940.53/180943
LOC classification:
  • D804
Online resources:
Contents:
Speaking the Unspeakable in Postwar Germany -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: An Archimedean Podium -- Part I. In the Event of Speech: Performing Dialogue -- 1. Martin Buber -- 2. Paul Celan -- 3. Ingeborg Bachmann -- Part II. "Who One Is": Self-Revelation and Its Discontents -- 4. Hannah Arendt -- 5. Uwe Johnson -- Part III. Speaking by Proxy: The Citation as Testimony -- 6. Peter Szondi -- 7. Peter Weiss -- Conclusion: Speaking of the Noose in the Country of the Hangman (Theodor W. Adorno) -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: In this an interdisciplinary study of a diverse set of public speeches given by major literary and cultural figures in the 1950s and 1960s, Sonja Boos demonstrates that these speakers both facilitated and subverted the construction of a public discourse about the Holocaust in postwar West Germany.
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Speaking the Unspeakable in Postwar Germany -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: An Archimedean Podium -- Part I. In the Event of Speech: Performing Dialogue -- 1. Martin Buber -- 2. Paul Celan -- 3. Ingeborg Bachmann -- Part II. "Who One Is": Self-Revelation and Its Discontents -- 4. Hannah Arendt -- 5. Uwe Johnson -- Part III. Speaking by Proxy: The Citation as Testimony -- 6. Peter Szondi -- 7. Peter Weiss -- Conclusion: Speaking of the Noose in the Country of the Hangman (Theodor W. Adorno) -- Bibliography -- Index.

In this an interdisciplinary study of a diverse set of public speeches given by major literary and cultural figures in the 1950s and 1960s, Sonja Boos demonstrates that these speakers both facilitated and subverted the construction of a public discourse about the Holocaust in postwar West Germany.

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