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UNINA9910453142003321 |
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Autore |
Silverman Maxim |
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Titolo |
Palimpsestic memory [[electronic resource] ] : the Holocaust and colonialism in French and francophone fiction and film / / Max Silverman |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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New York, : Berghahn Books, 2013 |
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ISBN |
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1-78238-900-8 |
0-85745-884-1 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (216 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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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. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 obli |
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