Research Catalog

Title

Auschwitz and after : race, culture, and "the Jewish question" in France / edited by Lawrence D. Kritzman.

Publication

New York : Routledge, 1995.

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Additional Authors

Kritzman, Lawrence D.

Description

x, 335 pages; 23 cm

Subjects

• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature
• Jews > France > Intellectual life
• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > France > Influence
• France > Ethnic relations
• France > Intellectual life > 20th century
• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in motion pictures

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Introduction: In the Shadows of Auschwitz: Culture, Memories, and Self-Reflection / Lawrence D. Kritzman -- 1. The Voice of Vichy / Geoffrey H. Hartman -- 2. The Holocaust's Challenge to History / Pierre Vidal-Naquet -- 3. Cendres juives: Jews Writing in French "after Auschwitz" / Elaine Marks -- 4. War Memories: On Autobiographical Reading / Susan Rubin Suleiman -- 5. Anti-Semitism in France, 1978-1992: Questions and Debates / Judith Friedlander -- 6. From the Novelistic to Memory / Alain Finkielkraut -- 7. Critical Reflections: Self-Portraiture and the Representation of Jewish Identity in French / Lawrence D. Kritzman -- 8. Jewish Identity in Raymond Aron, Emmanuel Berl, and Claude Levi-Strauss / Jeanine Parisier Plottel -- 9. Blanchot, Violence, and the Disaster / Allen Stoekl -- 10. Discussions, or Phrasing "after Auschwitz" / Jean-Francois Lyotard -- 11. Difficult Freedom / Emmanuel Levinas -- 12. Beyond Psychoanalysis: Elie Wiesel's Night in Historical Perspective / Ora Avni.
• 13. On the Holocaust Comedies of "Emile Ajar" / Jeffrey Mehlman -- 14. Georges Perec and the Broken Book / Warren Motte -- 15. Exiled from the Shoah: Andre and Simone Schwarz-Bart's Un plat de porc aux bananes vertes / Ronnie Scharfman -- 16. The Writing of Catastrophe: Jewish Memory and the Poetics of the Book in Edmond Jabes / Richard Stamelman -- 17. La vie en rose: Images of the Occupation in French Cinema / Naomi Greene -- 18. The Languages of Pain in Shoah / Nelly Furman -- 19. Duras's Aurelia Steiner, or Beyond Essence / Herman Rapaport.

ISBN

0415904404

LCCN

94027397

OCLC

• 30733539
• ocm30733539

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries