TY - BOOK AU - Silverman,Max TI - Palimpsestic Memory: The Holocaust and Colonialism in French and Francophone Fiction and Film SN - 9780857458834 U1 - 843.91409358405318 23 PY - 2013///] CY - New York, Oxford PB - Berghahn Books KW - Colonies in literature KW - Colonies in motion pictures KW - French fiction KW - History and criticism KW - 20th century KW - French-speaking countries KW - Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature KW - Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in motion pictures KW - FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / French KW - bisacsh KW - Film and Television Studies, Genocide History, Colonial History N1 - 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 N2 - 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780857458841?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780857458841 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780857458841/original ER -