Format:
1 online resource (244 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780801471957
Series Statement:
Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought Ser
Content:
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.
Content:
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.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780801479632
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780801479632
Language:
English
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=3138700
