Palimpsestic Memory

The Holocaust and Colonialism in French and Francophone Fiction and Film

von Max Silverman

216 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Proposes a new model for understanding cultural memory based on the principle of the palimpsest which condenses different memory traces. Challenges the distinction between memories of the Holocaust and memories of colonialism. Offers new readings of familiar post-war novels and films according to this new model of palimpsestic memory. Challenges the distinction between a formal aesthetics and politics by proposing a model which is a combination of the two.

• Themen: Sprache und Sprachwissenschaft Fremdsprachenerwerb, Fremdsprachendidaktik
• ISBN: 9780857458834
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 15.01.2013
• Größe: 235 x 157 mm
• Verlag: Berghahn Books