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Title:

New literary and linguistic perspectives on the German language, National Socialism, and the Shoah / edited by Peter Davies and Andrea Hammel.

Publisher:

Camden House,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

vi, 250 pages ; 24 cm.

Subject:

National socialism in literature.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature.
German literature--History and criticism.
Austrian literature--History and criticism.
Swiss literature (German)--History and criticism.
National socialism.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany.

Other Authors:

Davies, Peter (Peter J.), editor.
Hammel, Andrea, editor.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents:

Introduction : the German language, National Socialism, and the Shoah / Peter Davies and Andrea Hammel ; German language and National Socialism today : still a German "Sonderweg"? / Marko Pajevi♯ ; Clear wording or "historical euphemisms? : Conceptual controversies surrounding the naming of National Socialist memorial sites in Germany / Sylvia Degen -- The language of the perpetrators. "Lieber, guter Onkel Hitler" : a linguistic analysis of the letter as a National Socialist text-type and a re-evaluation of the "Sprache im/des Nationalsozialismus" debate / Geraldine Horan ; "German was heard so often in our Dutch home" : German Nazi refugees in the Netherlands and their ambivalent relationship with their mother tongue / Simone Schroth ; "Whose text is it anyway?" : Influences on a refugee memoir / Andrea Hammel ; Stigma and performance : Victor Klemperer's language-critical reflections on anti-Semitic hate speech / Arvi Sepp --
Literary language. Reinventing invented tradition : Vergangenheitsbew©Þltigung and the literature of melancholy / Mary Costrove ; "Even the word 'und' has to be re-invented somehow' : quoting the language of the perpetrators in texts by Anne Duden / Teresa Ludden ; "Reden ist Silber, Schweigen ist Gold" : German as a site of Fascist nostalgia and Romanian as the language of dictatorship in the work of Herta M©ơller / Jenny Watson ; The power of language and silence : Reinhard Jirgl's Die Stille / Dora Osborne -- Words and music. "Disrupted language, disrupted culture" : Hanns Eisler's Hollywooder Liederbuch (1942-43) / James Parsons ; "and all of a sudden, in the middle of it, they began singing..." : languages and commeration in Arnold Schoenberg's cantata A survivor from Warsaw (Op. 46) / Ian Biddle and Beate M©ơller --
Translation. Understanding a perpetrator in translation : presenting Rudolf H©œ©, commandant of Auschwitz, to readers of English / Peter Davies ; Translating testimony : Jakob Littner's typescript and the versions of Wolfgang Koeppen and Kurt Nathan Gr©ơbler / Simon Ward.

Summary:

"There is seemingly no escaping the association of the language of Goethe with the language of Hitler: the two leaden clich©♭s seem to be inseparable, suggesting a Sonderweg between enlightened sophistication and subtle beauty on the one hand and linguistic barbarism on the other. Victor Klemperer suggested that the Lingua Tertii Imperii was a perversion of German that needed to be purged from the language, but does the notion of "Nazi language" as an identifiably separate entity really hold water, or does it only reflect a desire to construct a clear demarcation line between "Germans" and "Nazis"? What new linguistic, literary, or historical perspectives are available on the functioning of language during and after the Third Reich? Must German always be the "language of the perpetrators," entailing a constant state of heightened self-awareness or vigilance against contamination, or is neutral, objective speech about National Socialism possible in German? This collection provides new perspectives on the relationship - or the perceived relationship - between the German language in all its manifestations and the causes, nature, and legacy of National Socialism and the Shoah."--Publisher's website.

Series:

Edinburgh German yearbook ; Volume 8

ISBN:

1571135979
9781571135971

OCLC:

(OCoLC)897874502

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)