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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453142003321

Autore

Silverman Maxim

Titolo

Palimpsestic memory [[electronic resource] ] : the Holocaust and colonialism in French and francophone fiction and film / / Max Silverman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Berghahn Books, 2013

ISBN

1-78238-900-8

0-85745-884-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (216 p.)

Disciplina

843/.91409358405318

Soggetti

French fiction - 20th century - History and criticism

French fiction - French-speaking countries - History and criticism

Colonies in literature

Colonies in motion pictures

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in motion pictures

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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 obli