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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Speaking the Unspeakable in Postwar Germany
    sub title: Toward a Public Discourse on the Holocaust
  name:
    name part: Boos, Sonja
    name part: 1972-2021
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: VerfasserIn
    role:
      role term: aut
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xx
    date issued: 2015
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: und
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 Online-Ressource (248 p.)
  abstract: 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 of a public discourse about the Holocaust in postwar West Germany. The author’s analysis of original audio recordings of the speech events (several of which will be available on a companion website) improves our understanding of the spoken, performative dimension of public speeches. Speaking the Unspeakable in Postwar Germany emphasizes the social constructedness of discourse, experience, and identity, but does not neglect the pragmatic conditions of aesthetic and intellectual production—most notably, the felt need to respond to the breach in tradition caused by the Holocaust. The book thereby illuminates the process by which a set of writers and intellectuals, instead of trying to mend what they perceived as a radical break in historical continuity or corroborating the myth of a "new beginning," searched for ways to make this historical rupture rhetorically and semantically discernible and literally audible. ; 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 of a public discourse about the Holocaust in postwar West Germany. The author's analysis of original audio recordings of the speech events (several of which will be available on a companion w…
  note: Open Access Unrestricted online access star
  note: Creative Commons https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 cc
  note: English
  subject:
    topic: European history
  subject:
    topic: European history
  subject:
    topic: The Holocaust
  subject:
    topic: Social groups: religious groups and communities
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought
  identifier: 9780801471957
  identifier: 9780801453601
  identifier: 9780801471940
  identifier: 9780801479632
  identifier: https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/99400
  access condition: Open Access
  access condition: Creative Commons
  record info:
    record content source: DE-627
    record creation date: 230721
    record change date: 20250302130616.0
    record identifier: 1853334391
    language of cataloging:
      language term: ger