Palimpsestic memory : the Holocaust and colonialism in French and francophone fiction and film / / Max Silverman

• Autore: Silverman Maxim
• Pubblicazione: New York, : Berghahn Books, 2013
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (216 p.)
• Disciplina: 843/.91409358405318; 843.91409358405318
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Classificazione: AP 59435
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Palimpsestic memory
• ISBN: 1-78238-900-8; 0-85745-884-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910807290003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II