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 Germanys 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; Schlants study makes an important contribution to our understanding of postwar German culture.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful. Important Collection of Cyberfeminist Art + TheoryBy sidney eve matrixTwenty-three contributors explore the questions: How exactly do technologies produce bodies (and subjects) that are recognizably raced; gendered and sexualized? How can technology be used to transform cultural conceptions of gender; sexuality; and embodiment? And less explicitly: What do cyberfeminist engagements with technoscientific discourses look like? Volume includes examples (and analysis)of work by female techno-artists creatively interpreting the intersections between desire; the body; science and machines. Notable essays by Margaret Morse and Sara Diamond on virtual gender; and by Lisa Cartwright and Evelynn Hammonds on imaging technologies and the production of racial and gendered norms. Together these artists and theorists consider "the complex territory" between pleasure/desire and fear/suspicion of technoscience and cyberculture from a number of feminist perspectives.