Memory and complicity : migrations of Holocaust remembrance
Debarati Sanyal (Author)
"Discusses the transcultural uses of Holocaust memory in literature, cinema and theory in the French-speaking world from the postwar years to contemporary times. Examines the political force and ethical perils of complicity and practices of historical remembrance"-- Provided by publisher
eBook, English, 2015
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Fordham University Press, New York, 2015
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Introduction
Chapter One: A Soccer Match in Auschwitz : Passing Trauma in Holocaust Studies
From Primo Levi's Gray Zone to Giorgio Agamben's Shame
Traumatic Complicity
From Paradigm to Figure : Rereading the Gray Zone as Allegory
Chapter Two: Concentrationary Migrations in and around Albert Camus
Figural Contagion and Historical cordon sanitaire : The Plague
Memory and Migration : Reenvisioning Algeria
Concentrationary Circulations : Le Métier à tisser and Night and Fog
Figure as Archive : Reading The Fall with Auschwitz and Algeria
History's Endless Cry : Allegory Unbound in The Fall
Chapter Three: Auschwitz as Allegory : From Night and Fog to Guantanamo Bay
An Aesthetics of Complicity
Allegory, Ruins, and History
The Transcultural Politics of Concentrationary Memory
Colonial Countermemories : Night and Fog in Thiaroye
Coda: From Postwar France to Guantanamo Bay
Chapter Four: Crabwalk History : Torture, Allegory, and Memory in Sartre
Chapter 5: Reading Nazi Memory in Jonathan Littell's The Kindly Ones
Memory's Manufacture : The "Complicity Effect" of a Perpetrator's Testimony
Itineraries of Trauma and Tourism
Imperial Lanscapes : Intersections of Colonialism and Genocide
Chapter Six: Holocaust and Colonial Memory in the Age of Terror : Assia Djebar and Boualem Sansal
Urban Palimpsests and the Claims of Memory in Assia Djebar's Les Nuits de Strasbourg
Against Identification : Bad Education, Trauma, and Citizenship
Holocaust Memory, Gray Zones and the War on Terror : Boualem Sansal's Le Village de l'Allemand
Afterword
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