Palimpsestic Memory

The Holocaust and Colonialism in French and Francophone Fiction and Film
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-78238-900-2
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 216 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 321 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Silverman, Max

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte Deutsche Geschichte: Holocaust
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmtheorie, Filmanalyse
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Kolonialismus, Imperialismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatursoziologie, Gender Studies
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Geschichte des Judentums Antisemitismus, Pogrome, Shoah
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgattungen, Filmgenre
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Romanische Literaturen Französische Literatur Postkoloniale Literaturen in Französisch, Französische Literatur außerhalb Europas

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Staging Memory as Palimpsest

Chapter 1. The Politics and Poetics of Memory

1.1 The Concentrationary Universe and Total Domination

1.2 The Politics of Memory: Between the Holocaust and Colonialism

1.3 The Poetics of Memory

1.4 Interconnecting Memories

Chapter 2. Concentrationary Memory

2.1 Fearful Imagination

2.2 Alain Resnais’s Nuit et brouillard

2.3 Mémoire-monde

Chapter 3. Anti-colonialism Revisited

3.1 Frantz Fanon: Peau noire masques blancs

3.2 Mohammed Dib: Qui se souvient de la mer

3.3 Assia Djebar: Femmes d’Alger dans leur appartement

Chapter 4. Colonial Hauntings of the Holocaust Imaginary

4.1 Charlotte Delbo: Auschwitz et après

4.2 Georges Perec: W ou le souvenir d’enfance

4.3 Patrick Modiano: Dora Bruder

Chapter 5. The Memory of the Image

5.1 Jean-Luc Godard:Histoire(s) du cinéma

5.2 Michael Haneke: Caché

5.3 ‘Un montage qui ne sépare rien’

Chapter 6. Memory Traces

6.1 Hélène Cixous’s ‘Pieds nus’ and Jacques Derrida’s Le Monolinguisme de l’autre, ou le prothèse de l’origine

6.2 Patrick Chamoiseau and Rodolphe Hammadi: Guyane: Traces-mémoires du bagne

Chapter 7. Cosmopolitical Memory

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Silverman, Max
Max Silverman is Professor of Modern French Studies at the University of Leeds. He has written on cultural memory, representations of the Holocaust, post-colonial theory and cultures, and immigration, race and nation in France. His recent publications include Concentrationary Cinema: Aesthetics as Political Resistance in Alain Resnais’s ‘Night and Fog’, co-edited with Griselda Pollock (Berghahn Books, 2011).

Max Silverman is Professor of Modern French Studies at the University of Leeds. He has written on cultural memory, representations of the Holocaust, post-colonial theory and cultures, and immigration, race and nation in France. His recent publications include Concentrationary Cinema: Aesthetics as Political Resistance in Alain Resnais’s ‘Night and Fog’, co-edited with Griselda Pollock (Berghahn Books, 2011).