Speaking the Unspeakable in Postwar Germany : Toward a Public Discourse on the Holocaust.
Boos, Sonja.
Speaking the Unspeakable in Postwar Germany : Toward a Public Discourse on the Holocaust. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (244 pages) - Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought Series . - Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought Series .
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.
9780801471957
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Influence.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Public opinion.
Speeches, addresses, etc., German -- History and criticism.
Public opinion -- Germany (West).
Germany (West) -- Intellectual life.
Electronic books.
D804
940.53/180943
Speaking the Unspeakable in Postwar Germany : Toward a Public Discourse on the Holocaust. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (244 pages) - Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought Series . - Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought Series .
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.
9780801471957
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Influence.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Public opinion.
Speeches, addresses, etc., German -- History and criticism.
Public opinion -- Germany (West).
Germany (West) -- Intellectual life.
Electronic books.
D804
940.53/180943