A01=Ernestine Schlant
Adolf Hitler
Auschwitz Trials
Author_Ernestine Schlant
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collective guilt discourse
East German CDU
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German cultural memory
Hanna's Acts
Hanna’s Acts
Henry Selwyn
High Tatra
Hitler
Holocaust representation fiction
Individual Memory Work
Klaus Briegleb
Kurt Georg Kiesinger
literary trauma studies
Minority Literatures
Mother's Memoirs
Mother’s Memoirs
narrative silence analysis
Narrator's Personal Reflections
Narrator’s Personal Reflections
Paul Bereyter
Postwar German Literature
postwar German narrative identity
Side Walk
SPD Campaign
Tv Debate
Uncontrollable Turmoil
Univers Concentrationnaire
VergangenheitsbewA?ltigung
West German Literature
West German Writers
West Germany
Yiddish Films
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780415922203
- Weight: 530g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 04 Feb 1999
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Focusing on individual authors from Heinrich Boll to Gunther Grass, Hermann Lenz to Peter Schneider, The Language of Silence offers an analysis of West German literature as it tries to come to terms with the Holocaust and its impact on postwar West German society. Exploring postwar literature as the barometer of Germany's unconsciously held values as well as of its professed conscience, Ernestine Schlant demonstrates that the confrontation with the Holocaust has shifted over the decades from repression, circumvention, and omission to an open acknowledgement of the crimes. Yet even today a 'language of silence' remains since the victims and their suffering are still overlooked and ignored. Learned and exacting, Schlant's study makes an important contribution to our understanding of postwar German culture.
Ernestine Schlant is Professor of German at Montclair State University. She is author of Hermann Broch (1978) and editor of Legacies and Ambiguities: Postwar Fictionand Culture in West Germany and Japan (1986).
