Palimpsestic Memory: The Holocaust and Colonialism in French and Francophone Fiction and Film

by Max Silverman

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1782389008
• ISBN13: 9781782389002
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"