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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Berghahn Books,
2013.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (viii, 206 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780857458841 0857458841 1299777635 9781299777637 0857458833 9780857458834 |