Tearing the Silence: Being German in America

Informationen zum Autor Ursula Hegi is the author of The Worst Thing I've Done, Sacred Time , Hotel of the Saints , The Vision of Emma Blau , Tearing the Silence , Salt Dancers , Stones from the River , Floating in My Mother's Palm , Unearned Pleasures and Other Stories , Intrusions , and Trudi & Pia . She teaches writing at Stonybrook's Southhampton Campus and she is the recipient of more than thirty grants and awards. Klappentext Brilliantly interviewed by bestselling novelist Ursula Hegi! German Americans born in Germany during and immediately following World War II speak out about the legacy of grief and shame that continues to haunt them. Zusammenfassung Ursula Hegi grew up in Germany and moved to the United States at age eighteen. As she grew older and raised a family, questions about her roots and her native land haunted her until, at last, she felt compelled to write about them. Tearing the Silence brings together her interviews with dozens of German-born Americans, and their confrontations with the taboo of the Holocaust.

Product details

• Authors: Ursula Hegi, Hegi Ursula
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2008
• EAN: 9780684846118
• ISBN: 978-0-684-84611-8
• No. of pages: 308
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Europe, European History, HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), HISTORY / Military / General, HISTORY / Europe / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Demography, HISTORY / World, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Jewish, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies, General & world history, Jewish Studies, Second World War, The Holocaust, Social and cultural history, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), General and world history, History of the Americas, Modern warfare, c 1940 to c 1949, Population & demography, Population and Demography, Relating to Jewish people and groups, Social groups: religious groups and communities, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / Holocaust, History / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / European Theater