Sounds of Defiance: The Holocaust, Multilingualism, and the Problem of English by Alan Rosen
English | Sep 1, 2005 | ISBN: 0803239629 | 250 Pages | PDF | 2 MB
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 period of the Second World War to the 1990s.