Speaking the Unspeakable in Postwar Germany: Toward a Public Discourse on the Holocaust
ISBN: 9780801471957
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Cornell University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: History ; Language & Literature ; Sociology;

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.


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

hidden image for function call