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Speaking the Unspeakable in Postwar Germany : Toward a Public Discourse on the Holocaust / Sonja Boos.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and ThoughtPublisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (248 p.)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780801471957
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 940.53180943 23
LOC classification:
  • D804.3 .B66 2016
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: An Archimedean Podium -- Part I. In the Event of Speech: Performing Dialogue -- 1. Martin Buber -- 2. Paul Celan -- 3. Ingeborg Bachmann -- Part II. "Who One Is": Self-Revelation and Its Discontents -- 4. Hannah Arendt -- 5. Uwe Johnson -- Part III. Speaking by Proxy: The Citation as Testimony -- 6. Peter Szondi -- 7. Peter Weiss -- Conclusion: Speaking of the Noose in the Country of the Hangman (Theodor W. Adorno) -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: 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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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: An Archimedean Podium -- Part I. In the Event of Speech: Performing Dialogue -- 1. Martin Buber -- 2. Paul Celan -- 3. Ingeborg Bachmann -- Part II. "Who One Is": Self-Revelation and Its Discontents -- 4. Hannah Arendt -- 5. Uwe Johnson -- Part III. Speaking by Proxy: The Citation as Testimony -- 6. Peter Szondi -- 7. Peter Weiss -- Conclusion: Speaking of the Noose in the Country of the Hangman (Theodor W. Adorno) -- Bibliography -- Index

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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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