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Being Contemporary : French Literature, Culture and Politics Today.
A collection of 23 riveting essays on aspects of contemporary French culture by the superstars of the field.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Liverpool University Press,
2016.
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| Colección: | Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures LUP.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Being Contemporary, Then And Now; I. Conceptualizing the Contemporary; 1. Coping with Contemporariness; 2. Rethinking Periodization for the 'Now-Time'; 3. (After) Conceptualism; II. Contemporary Politics and French Thought; 4. Identities in Flux; 5. The Paradoxes of Being Contemporary; 6. Of Sade, Blanchot, and the French Twentieth Century; 7. Alain Badiou and Antisemitism; III. The Second World War and Vichy: Present Perspectives; 8. What Does 'Vichy' Mean Now?; 9. Forces of Solidarity and Logics of Exclusion.
- 10. Narrative, Testimony, Fiction: The Challenge of Not Forgetting the Holocaust11. 'Moral Witnessing'?: An Israeli Perspective on Jonathan Littell's Les Bienveillantes ; 12. From 'Never Forgetting' to 'Post-Remembering' and 'Co-witnessing'; IV. Writing the Contemporary Self ; 13. 'I' in the Plural: A New Writing of History ; 14. Selves at Risk: Reading Susan Suleiman with Marc Augé, La Vie en double ; 15. Risking Who One Is, at the Risk of Thinking ; 16. 'La Connaissance par corps' : Writing and Self-Exposure in Annie Ernaux; V. Novel Rereadings; 17. Long Live Anachronism.
- 18. Colette's Côtelettes, or the Word Made Flesh19. Choices: Beckett's Way; 20. Making L'Etranger Contemporary ; VI. Memory: Past and Future ; 21. A Nest in the Air: Phantom Pain and Contemporary Narrative; 22. Adrien and Marcel Proust : Fathering Neurasthenic Memory; 23. Vulnerable Times ; Contributors; Index.