Speaking the Unspeakable in Postwar Germany Toward a Public Discourse on the Holocaust |
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| Author:
| Boos, Sonja |
| Series title: | Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8014-5360-1 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 2014 |
| Publisher: | Cornell University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $130.00 |
Book Description:
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In this an interdisciplinary study of a diverse set of public speeches given by major literary and cultural figures in the 1950s and 1960s, Sonja Boos demonstrates that these speakers both facilitated and subverted the construction of a public discourse about the Holocaust in postwar West Germany.
In this an interdisciplinary study of a diverse set of public speeches given by major literary and cultural figures in the 1950s and 1960s, Sonja Boos demonstrates that these speakers both facilitated and subverted the construction of a public discourse about the Holocaust in postwar West Germany.