Sounds of Defiance: The Holocaust, Multilingualism, and the Problem of English, Alan Rosen (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005), xiv + 248 pp., cloth 45.00
In Sounds of Defiance, Alan Rosen has explored with keen insight the process by which the English language has affected the representation of Holocaust experiences. The author's consideration of texts from various genres across several decades supports an extensive investigation of the “differe...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2008
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2008, Volume: 22, Issue: 1, Pages: 139-141 |
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| Summary: | In Sounds of Defiance, Alan Rosen has explored with keen insight the process by which the English language has affected the representation of Holocaust experiences. The author's consideration of texts from various genres across several decades supports an extensive investigation of the “different tongues” spoken in the various lands where Jews dwelled (p. 4)., Because the diverse populations victimized at the hands of Nazism are represented by equally diverse language codes—and within this framework, English was the primary voice of neither victim nor perpetrator—Rosen proposes that “every language is going to be unfaithful to the camp experience” (p. 6). |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcn015 |