Speaking the unspeakable in postwar Germany : toward a public discourse on the Holocaust /

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...

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Main Author:	Boos, Sonja, 1972- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press : Cornell University Library, 2014.
Series:	Signale (Ithaca, N.Y.)
Subjects:	Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Influence. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Public opinion. Speeches, addresses, etc., German > History and criticism. Germany (West) > Intellectual life. Public opinion > Germany (West)