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

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...

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1. Verfasser: Silverman, Maxim
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York : Berghahn Books, 2013.
Ausgabe:1st ed.
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Zusammenfassung: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 ob.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (viii, 206 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780857458841
0857458841
1299777635
9781299777637
0857458833
9780857458834

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