Memory and Innovation in the Post-Holocaust Generation in France (French Studies)

Memory and Innovation in the Post-Holocaust Generation in France

French Studies, Volume 59, Number 1, January 2005:    

This special issue explores different representations of cultural memory in France since the Holocaust, a period overshadowed by historical trauma (wars, decolonization, genocide), in which memory has become an increasingly dominant cultural obsession. Contested representations of cultural memory have given rise to important critical and philosophical debates, which pivot on the relation between memory and history, the individual and the collective. Covering a broad range of spheres including literature, cultural history and theory, psychoanalysis and film, the essays collected here draw on and contribute to these critical debates in analyses that seek to rethink the relation between memory and representation. Where recent critical work on cultural memory has tended to emphasize its failures and frustrations, these essays highlight a different model of memory as innovation and creative representation. Central to all the essays is the idea that memories are constructed and mediated via specific culturally constructed frames, within which individual memory is irrevocably and sometimes troublingly bound up with collective modes of remembering. Yet the representations of memory examined here show how memory can work productively in and through tensions such as the relation between the individual and the collective without trying to overcome them: these tensions remain as crucial elements in the quest to find new forms of representation of memory.

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Victoria Best and Kathryn Robson

Memory and Innovation in Post-Holocaust France 
Colin Davis Charlotte Delbo's Ghosts Martin Crowley Frightful, Yes, Frightful! Emma Wilson Material Relics: Resnais, Memory and the Senses Patrick Ffrench The Memory of the Image in Chris Marker's La Jetée Johnnie Gratton Postmemory, Prememory, Paramemory: The Writing of Patrick Modiano Michael Sheringham Memory and the Archive in Contemporary Life-Writing Elizabeth Fallaize In Search of a Liturgy: Assia Djebar's Le Blanc De L'algérie (1995) Edward J. Hughes Haunted and Haemorrhaging: The World of Mohammed Dib's La Nuit Sauvage Richard Parish Racine: An État Présent

Reviews

Bill Burgwinkle Review: The Art of Healing: Painting for the Sick and the Sinner in a Medieval Town Simon Gaunt Review: Hagiography, Romance and the ‘Vie de Sainte Euphrosine’ Françoise Le Saux Review: ‘Ce est li fruis selonc la letre’: mélanges offerts à Charles Méla Adrian Armstrong Review: Le Sentiment du temps dans la littérature française: XII^e s.–fin du XVI^e s Sylvia Huot Review: Huon de Bordeaux Emma Cayley Review: Écriture et pouvoir à l'aube des temps modernes Emma Cayley Review: Dido's Daughters: Literacy, Gender and Empire in Early Modern England and France Valerie Worth-Stylianou Review: Patronage in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century France Margaret Harvey Review: Sainte Anne est une sorcière et autres essais Michael Heath Review: Champ Fleury. Digital edition Ian Maclean Review: Ambroise Paré (1510–90): pratique et écriture de la science à la Renaissance — Actes du Colloque de Pau 6–7 mai 1999 Marcus Keller Review: uvres complètes. I. La Deffence, et illustration de la langue françoise Alan James Review: Richelieu and Mazarin: A Study in Statesmanship Russell Ganim Review: uvres complètes. III: Poésie (II) Amy Wygant Review: uvres complètes, IV. Les Tragédies Alice King Review: Mascarades et ballets au Grand Siècle: 1643–1715 Peter Rickard Review: La Correspondance d'Albert Bailly. Tome V. Années 1654–55 Emma Gilby Review: Les Dieux désenchantés: la fable dans la pensée française de Huet à Voltaire (1680–1760) Mark Darlow Review: L'Imaginaire de la musique au siècle des Lumières William J. Berg Review: De chair et de marbre: imiter et exprimer le nu en France (1745–1815) Andrea Goulet Review: In the Mind's Eye: The Visual Impulse in Diderot, Baudelaire and Ruskin David McCallam Review: Jean-François Marmontel: un intellectuel exemplaire au siècle des Lumières John Phillips Review: Sade in His Own Name: An Analysis of ‘Les Crimes de l'amour’ Émile Perreau-Saussine Review: Political Writings Roger Pearson Review: Obermann: dernière version Moya Longstaffe Review: Stendhal en sa correspondance; ou, ‘L'Histoire d'un esprit’ Richard Bolster Review: ‘L'Art de Komiker’: comédie, théâtralité et jeu chez Stendhal Kate Rees Review: Real Time: Accelerating Narrative from Balzac to Zola Ceri Crossley Review: Le ‘Baron’ d'Eckstein et ses contemporains: Lamennais, Lacodaire, Montalembert, Foisset, Michelet, Renan, Hugo, etc — Correspondences. avec un choix de ses articles Ceri Crossley Review: Correspondance d'Alphonse de Lamartine (1830–1867) Peter Dayan Review: George Sand: ‘Indiana’ — ‘Mauprat’ Hannah Thompson Review: La Littérature à l'ère de la photographie: enquête sur une révolution invisible  Sheila MacLeod Review: Pour fixer la trace: photographie, littérature et voyage au milieu du XIX^e siècle Christopher Robinson Review: Desiring the Dead: Necrophilia and Nineteenth-Century French Literature Hannah Thompson Review: La Religion de Zola: naturalisme et déchristianisme Christopher Lloyd Review: Le Drageoir aux épices Christopher Lloyd Review: L'Écriture comique de J.-K. Huysmans Jennifer Birkett Review: Huysmans l'inchangé: histoire d'une conversion Elfrieda Dubois Review: Latin et latinité dans l'uvre de Léon Bloy Ian Maclachlan Review: De l'attrait à la possession: Maupassant, Artaud, Blanchot Julian Wright Review: Modern France: 1880–2002 Joan Tumblety Review: Au service de l'Église, de la patrie et de la famille: femmes catholiques et maternité sous la III^e République Thomas Baldwin Review: Proust: la traduction du sensible Nicole Dombrowski Risser Review: Female Intelligence: Women and Espionage in the First World War Ferzina Banaji Review: In the Aftermath of Genocide: Armenians and Jews in Twentieth-Century France Mark Orme Review: ‘Sensing’, ‘Seeing’, ‘Saying’ in Camus' ‘Noces’: A Meditative Essay  Robert Gildea Review: Collaboration and Resistance in Occupied France: Representing Treason and Sacrifice Brett Bowles Review: A Rescuer's Story: Pastor Pierre-Charles Toureille in Vichy France Kathryn Robson Review: Jews and Gender in Liberation France  Michael Syrotinski Review: Autour de la ‘Lettre aux Directeurs de la Résistance, de Jean Paulhan  Clare Finburgh Review: Queens and Revolutionaries: New Readings of Jean Genet   Fiona Cox Review: Signs and Designs: Art and Architecture in the Work of Michel Butor  Tom Conley Review: Michel Foucault: Form and Power  Martin Crowley Review: After Poststructuralism: Reading, Stories and Theory  Nathalie Grande Review: Féminités et masculinités dans le texte narratif avant 1800: la question du ‘gender’  Gavin Bowd Review: Le Roman de la démocratie Sarah Cooper Review: Intertextuality: Debates and Contexts Keith Reader Review: French Cinema: From its Beginnings to the Present Philip Dine Review: Football in France: A Cultural History Geoff Hare Review: Essays on Heroism in Sport in Ireland and France