1st Edition
Auschwitz and After Race, Culture, and "the Jewish Question" in France
Edited By Lawrence D. Kritzman
Copyright 1995
346 Pages
by
Routledge
346 Pages
by
Routledge
346 Pages
by
Routledge
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Beginning with Marcel Ophus's documentary The Sorrow and the Pity (1970) there has been an attempt to question the idea of a totally unified, courageous and resistant wartime France. Even more startling have been the increasingly shocking revelations that the politics of collaboration were a mere extension of a deep-seated French anti-semitic tradition. In the shadow of these developments... Read more
Introduction; I: Histories, Memories, and Politics; 1: The Voice of Vichy; 2: The Holocaust's Challenge to History; 3: Cendres juives; 4: War Memories; 5: Anti-Semitism in France, 1978–1992; II: Identities and Cultural Practices; 6: From the Novelistic to Memory; 7: Critical Reflections; 8: Jewish Identity in Raymond Aron, Emmanuel Berl, and Claude Lévi-Strauss; III: Philosophy and Jews; 9: Blanchot, Violence, and the Disaster; 10: Discussions, or Phrasing “after Auschwitz”; 11: Difficult Freedom; IV: Writing After Auschwitz: Literary Representations; 12: Beyond Psychoanalysis; 13: On the Holocaust Comedies of “Emile Ajar”; 14: Georges Perec and the Broken Book; 15: Exiled from the Shoah; 16: The Writing of Catastrophe; V: Cinematic Images; 17: La vie en rose; 18: The Languages of Pain in Shoah; 19: Duras's Aurélia Steiner, or Beyond Essence
Biography
Lawrence D. Kritzman is Edward Tuck Professor of French and Chair of the Program in Comparative Literature at Dartmouth College. He has edited Politics, Philosophy, Culture, a selection of interviews and essays by Michel Foucault.
"Auschwitz and After represents a truly notable step toward providing substantial insights into...Jewish identity in post-war France." -- French Review
