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

by Sonja Boos

Book Overview

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: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801453607
• ISBN13: 9780801453601
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: Cornell University Press and Cornell Universi
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"