TY  - BOOK
AU  - Boos,Sonja
TI  - Speaking the Unspeakable in Postwar Germany: Toward a Public Discourse on the Holocaust
T2  - Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought Series
SN  - 9780801471957
AV  - D804 
U1  - 940.53/180943 
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Ithaca
PB  - Cornell University Press
KW  - Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Influence
KW  - Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Public opinion
KW  - Speeches, addresses, etc., German -- History and criticism
KW  - Public opinion -- Germany (West)
KW  - Germany (West) -- Intellectual life
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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