ISBN:
9780415904407
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (346 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Auschwitz and After : Race, Culture, and ""the Jewish Question"" in France
DDC:
305.892/4044/09045
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Beginning with Marcel Ophus's documentary The Sorrow and the Pity (1970) there has been an attempt to question the idea of a totally unified, courageous and resistant wartime France. Even more startling have been the increasingly shocking revelations that the politics of collaboration were a mere extension of a deep-seated French anti-semitic tradition. In the shadow of these developments French writers and philosophers today are reflecting on the meaning of Jewish identity in the contemporary world. Auschwitz and After analyses for the first time how the memory of Auschwitz and the collabora
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Auschwitz and After; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: In the Shadows of Auschwitz: Culture, Memories,and Self-Reflection; I. Histories, Memories, and Politics; 1. The Voice of Vichy; 2. The Holocaust's Challenge to History; 3. Cendres juives: Jews Writing in French ""after Auschwitz""; 4. War Memories: On Autobiographical Reading; 5. Anti-Semitism in France, 1978-1992: Questions and Debates; II. Identities and Cultural Practices; 6. From the Novelistic to Memory
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7. Critical Reflections: Self-Portraiture and the Representation of Jewish Identity in French8. Jewish Identity in Raymond Aron, Emmanuel Berl, and Claude Lévi-Strauss; III. Philosophy and Jews; 9. Blanchot, Violence, and the Disaster; 10. Discussions, or Phrasing ""after Auschwitz""; 11. Difficult Freedom; IV. Writing After Auschwitz: Literary Representations; 12. Beyond Psychoanalysis: Elie Wiesel's Night in Historical Perspective; 13. On the Holocaust Comedies of ""Emile Ajar""; 14. Georges Perec and the Broken Book
Description / Table of Contents:
15. Exiled from the Shoah: André and Simone Schwarz-Bart's Un plat de porc aux bananes vertes16. The Writing of Catastrophe: Jewish Memory and the Poetics of the Book in Edmond Jabès; V. Cinematic Images; 17. La vie en rose:Images of the Occupation in French Cinema; 18. The Languages of Pain in Shoah; 19. Duras's Aurélia Steiner, or Beyond Essence; Contributors
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Description based upon print version of record
