Speaking the Unspeakable in Postwar Germany: Toward a Public Discourse on the Holocaust
(Part of the Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought Series)
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Speaking the Unspeakable in Postwar Germany is an interdisciplinary study of a diverse set of public speeches given by major literary and cultural figures in the 1950s and 1960s. Through close readings of canonical speeches by Hannah Arendt, Theodor W. Adorno, Ingeborg Bachmann, Martin Buber, Paul Celan, Uwe Johnson, Peter Szondi, and Peter Weiss, Sonja Boos demonstrates that these speakers both facilitated and subverted the construction...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0801479630
ISBN13:9780801479632
Release Date:December 2014
Publisher:Cornell University Press and Cornell Universi
Length:248 Pages
Weight:0.85 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"
Age Range:18 years and up
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
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