| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 206 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Palimpsestic Memory; Palimpsestic Memory The Holocaust and Colonialism in French and Francophone Fiction and Film -- Max Silverman; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction Staging Memory as Palimpsest; Chapter 1 The Politics and Poetics of Memory; Chapter 2 Concentrationary Memory; Chapter 3 Anti-colonialism Revisited; Chapter 4 Colonial Hauntings of the Holocaust Imaginary; Chapter 5 The Memory of the Image; Chapter 6 Memory Traces; Chapter 7 Cosmopolitical Memory; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
The interconnections between histories and memories of the Holocaust, colonialism and extreme violence in post-war French and Francophone fiction and film provide the central focus of this book. It proposes a new model of 'palimpsestic memory', which the author defines as the condensation of different spatio-temporal traces, to describe these interconnections and defines the poetics and the politics of this composite form. In doing so it is argued that a poetics dependent on tropes and techniques, such as metaphor, allegory and montage, establishes connections across space and time which ob |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
French fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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French fiction -- French-speaking countries -- History and criticism
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Colonies in literature.
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Colonies in motion pictures.
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature.
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in motion pictures.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- French.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- History & Criticism.
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Colonies in literature
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Colonies in motion pictures
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French fiction
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) in literature
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) in motion pictures
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French-speaking countries
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780857458841 |
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0857458841 |
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1299777635 |
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9781299777637 |
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0857458833 |
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9780857458834 |
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