Sounds of Defiance
Subtitle: The Holocaust, Multilingualism, and the Problem of English
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: September 1, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9780803239623
Subjects: Language & Linguistics; Literary studies: from c 1900 -; The Holocaust; Holocaust; English language; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Spoken English; Literary Criticism; British Isles; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature; American - General; Literary Criticism & Collections / General; American literature; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; 20th century; History and criticism
Description: "Language has frequently been at the center of discussions about Holocaust writing. Yet English, a primary language of neither the persecutors nor the victims, has generally been viewed as marginal to the events of the Holocaust. Alan Rosen argues that this marginal status profoundly affects writing on the Holocaust in English and fundamentally shapes our understanding of the events. Sounds of Defiance chronicles the evolving status of English in writing about the Holocaust, from the Second World War to the 1990s." "Each chapter highlights a representative work from a different genre - psychology, sociology, memoir, tales, fiction, and film - and examines the special position of English with regard to the Holocaust, supported by references to the role of other languages, including Hebrew, Yiddish, and German."--Jacket.