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E-Book, Englisch, 248 Seiten, EPUB, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 228 mm

Reihe: Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought

Boos Speaking the Unspeakable in Postwar Germany


Toward a Public Discourse on the Holocaust

E-Book, Englisch, 248 Seiten, EPUB, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 228 mm

Reihe: Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought

ISBN: 978-0-8014-7194-0
Verlag: Cornell University Press
Format: EPUB
 Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

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.While emphasizing the social constructedness of discourse, experience, and identity, Boos 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.
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Autoren/Hrsg.

Boos, Sonja

Weitere Infos & Material

Introduction: An Archimedean PodiumPart I. In the Event of Speech: Performing Dialogue
1. Martin Buber
2. Paul Celan
3. Ingeborg BachmannPart II. "Who One Is": Self-Revelation and Its Discontents
4. Hannah Arendt
5. Uwe JohnsonPart III. Speaking by Proxy: The Citation as Testimony
6. Peter Szondi
7. Peter WeissConclusion: Speaking of the Noose in the Country of the Hangman (Theodor W. Adorno)Bibliography
Index

Sonja Boos is Assistant Professor of German at the University of Oregon.

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