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

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.

Product details

• Authors: Sonja Boos
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.12.2014
• EAN: 9780801479632
• ISBN: 978-0-8014-7963-2
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought; Signale: Modern German Letters; Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought; Signale: Modern German Letters
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History