Palimpsestic Memory : The Holocaust and Colonialism in French and Francophone Fiction and Film /
Silverman, Max
Palimpsestic Memory : The Holocaust and Colonialism in French and Francophone Fiction and Film / Max Silverman. - 1 online resource (216 p.)
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Staging Memory as Palimpsest -- 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
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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 oblige us to perceive cultural memory not in terms of its singular attachment to a particular event or bound to specific ethno-cultural or national communities but as a dynamic process of transfer between different moments of racialized violence and between different cultural communities. The structure of the book allows for both the theoretical elaboration of this paradigm for cultural memory and individual case-studies of novels and films.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780857458834 9780857458841
10.1515/9780857458841 doi
Colonies in literature.
Colonies in motion pictures.
French fiction--History and criticism--20th century.
French fiction--History and criticism--French-speaking countries.
French fiction--History and criticism.--20th century
French fiction--History and criticism.--French-speaking countries
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in motion pictures.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / French.
Film and Television Studies, Genocide History, Colonial History.
843.91409358405318
Palimpsestic Memory : The Holocaust and Colonialism in French and Francophone Fiction and Film / Max Silverman. - 1 online resource (216 p.)
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Staging Memory as Palimpsest -- 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
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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 oblige us to perceive cultural memory not in terms of its singular attachment to a particular event or bound to specific ethno-cultural or national communities but as a dynamic process of transfer between different moments of racialized violence and between different cultural communities. The structure of the book allows for both the theoretical elaboration of this paradigm for cultural memory and individual case-studies of novels and films.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780857458834 9780857458841
10.1515/9780857458841 doi
Colonies in literature.
Colonies in motion pictures.
French fiction--History and criticism--20th century.
French fiction--History and criticism--French-speaking countries.
French fiction--History and criticism.--20th century
French fiction--History and criticism.--French-speaking countries
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in motion pictures.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / French.
Film and Television Studies, Genocide History, Colonial History.
843.91409358405318