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L'écriture génocidaire : l'antisémitisme, en style et en discours, de l'affaire Dreyfus au 11 septembre 2001 / Michaël Prazan.

Title
L'écriture génocidaire : l'antisémitisme, en style et en discours, de l'affaire Dreyfus au 11 septembre 2001 / Michaël Prazan.
Author
Prazan, Michaël
Publication
Paris : Calmann-Lévy, c2005.

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Description
350 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
Summary
Argues that an antisemitic literary style developed in France towards the end of the 19th century, during the Dreyfus Affair. Knowingly or not, Charles Maurras and Léon Daudet, but also Émile Zola and Octave Mirbeau, provided antisemitism with stylistic markers (e.g. anti-Jewish stereotypes); these were perfected by Céline, who combined them with a worldview inspired by "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion". Céline's works are examples of "genocidal writing", which uses dehumanizing vocabulary, is pamphletary in style, couples lexical inventiveness with racist abuse, and is permeated by a conspiratorial worldview. Since the end of World War II, new anti-Jewish discourses, mainly Holocaust denial and anti-Zionism, have developed globally. Regarding France, compares Jean Genet's role in the creation of anti-Zionist discourse with Céline's role in the creation of Holocaust denial discourse. Genet, however, is not looking to morally legitimize Palestinian violence, but loves it as such and bases his anti-Zionism on loathing of the Jews, who represent the good. The 1980s-90s witnessed a fusion and globalization of anti-Jewish discourses, which contributed to the 9/11 attacks. Examines "genocidal writing" in the discourse of the Front National. Discusses anti-Zionism and genocidal discourse (including antisemitic cartoons) in the Arab world, from the outbreak of the second Intifada in 2000 to the battle of Jenin in 2002.
Subject
  • 1900-1999
  • Antisemitism > France > History
  • French literature > History and criticism
  • 19th-21st Century
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [339]-344).
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
ISBN
270213565X
OCLC
  • 58943439
  • SCSB-11804370
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library