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Shadows in the City of Light : Paris in Postwar French Jewish Writing /
"Examines the place of Paris in French Jewish literary memory, a memory that, of necessity, grapples with the aftermath of the Holocaust. The essays in Shadows in the City of Light explore the significance of Paris in the writing of five influential French writers--Sarah Kofman, Patrick Modiano...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Albany :
SUNY Press,
[2021]
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| Colección: | SUNY series in contemporary Jewish literature and culture.
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| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction: The Long Shadow of the Jewish Question in Paris
- In Search of Shadows Past
- A Brief, Modern History of the Jews of Paris
- Vichy France and the Paris Cultural Scene
- The Authors and Their Contexts: The Paris of the Postwar Literature
- Bibliography
- Part 1 Topography
- 2 A Psychogeography of Dora Bruder
- Bibliography
- 3 "Ô popoï, popoï, popoï": Breathless Sobs, Displacement, and Parisian Cartography in Sarah Kofman's Rue Ordener Rue Labat
- Memories, Places, Encounters
- Mapping Readings of Rue Ordener Rue Labat
- A Gift as Yet Unfully Unwrapped
- Temporality and Displacement
- Reading the Mappings of Rue Ordener Rue Labat
- Place-mapping the Past
- Bibliography
- 4 Perec, Raczymow, and Their Sites of Memory
- The Belleville Neighborhood in the Works of Perec and Raczymow
- The City as a Book
- (Re)mapping Belleville and the rue Vilin
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Part 2 Familiar Strangers
- 5 Comme Dieu en France? Disillusionment and Dreams in Twentieth-Century French Jewish Immigrant Literature
- France in the Eastern European Jewish Imagination
- City of Dreams, City of Temptations: Paris in French Jewish Literature of the 1920s
- A City of Dreams (and Disappointments) Once More: Paris in the Postwar Sephardic Literary Imagination
- Paris, City of Dreams Fulfilled?
- Notes
- Bibliography
- 6 Sarah Kofman: A Strange Familiarity
- Rue Ordener Rue Labat
- The Cadavre, the Cadaveresque
- Two Mothers
- The Carrion Beetle
- Smothered Words
- To Write about That
- And Paris?
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Part 3 Ambivalences
- 7 A City of My Own: Paris and Desire in the Works of Patrick Modiano and Georges Perec
- Bibliography
- 8 Patrick Modiano's Dora Bruder: Wandering Down Memory Lane
- A Topographical Inquiry
- From Biography to Autobiography: An Excursion into Jewish Identity
- Bibliography
- 9 "Paris of Days Gone By": The Quest for Memory in a Postwar Haunted City-A Case Study of Georges Perec's and Patrick Modiano's Novels
- Bibliography
- Part 4 Absence
- 10 Mourning and the Work of Memory in Holocaust Memoirs
- Memory and the Work of Mourning: The Work of Memory
- Repression under Review
- The Primary Mourning of Lost Parents
- Preserving the Bond through Memoir-Writing
- Bibliography
- 11 Paris Obscur
- Bibliography
- 12 Algerian Echoes in Modiano's and Perec's Cityscapes of Holocaust Memory
- Modiano
- Perec
- Bibliography
- Part 5 Past Imperfect
- 13 Perec's Ghost City
- Notes
- Bibliography
- 14 Street Walking Paris
- Note
- Bibliography
- 15 The Afterlife of Irène Némirovsky's Suite française
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Contributors
- Index