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He works on postholocaust culture, postcolonial theory and. This book will be essential reading for students and researchers in the areas of postcolonial studies, french and francophone studies, cultural studies, ethnic and racial studies, politics, literature and psychoanalysis, and all those concerned, like fanon, with the quest for human freedom. This edited collection delves into the horrors of november 1938 and to what degree they portended the holocaust, demonst. His recent publications include palimpsestic memory. Its beauty lies in the fact that it creates unstable correspondences by means of similarity and difference 2324. Approximately onefourth of its content consists of footnotes in small print which amplify the text or in which the. Silverman describes how the relationship between the past and the present may entail a superimposition and interaction of different temporal traces to constitute a sort of composite structure. It proposes a new model of palimpsestic memory, wh. The holocaust and colonialism in french and francophone fiction and film, new york, berghahn books, 20. I was born and educated in north london, was an undergraduate at the university of east anglia 197175 and a postgraduate at the university of kent 19761980. Palimpsestic memory by max silverman overdrive rakuten. Max silverman locates his model of memory in relation to existing theories, most. Histories of violence we have become less and less aware of the changed environment in which disposing of lives takes place and the forms that disposability takes, so that we no longer recognise what is staring us in the face. Violence, memory, and history ebook by 97814757848.
Centre for jewish studies, university of manchester. Max silverman s palimpsestic memory is a significant contribution to the renewal of memory studies over the past decade. While acknowledging the struggles and contestations that accompany public articulations of memory, the theory of multidirectional memory seeks an explanation of the dynamics of remembrance. The holocaust and colonialism in french and francophone fiction and film berghahn, 20 and a coedited book. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. The interconnections between histories and memories of the holocaust. He has recently published a book on connections between the holocaust and colonialism in the french and francophone cultural imaginary entitled palimpsestic memory. In this timely book, max silverman deepens our understanding of the. In his book on palimpsestic memory, silverman states that metaphor does not simply collapse one element into the other so that they become the same. Max silvermans palimpsestic memory is a significant contribution to. The structure of the book allows for both the theoretical elaboration of this paradigm for cultural memory and individual casestudies of novels and films. He is currently writing a book on the connections between holocaust and colonialism in the french and francophone cultural imaginary entitled palimpsestic memory.
Max silverman is professor of modern french studies at the university of leeds. His first book the gospel according to renan was published by oxford university press. Silverman argues for a model of memory that is nonlinear and nonexclusive, not bound to the cultural narrative of a single group or nation but pointing simultaneously to diverse histories. Launched in january 2014, the histories of violence disposable life project. Pdf peau noire masques blancs download full pdf download. The first chapter of silvermans book outlines its theoretical foundations, while the second is devoted to concentrationary memory. Postapartheid identity in cape town townships by charlie kern and kevin silverman during south africas apartheid regime, black and colored people faced oppression of all forms. Palimpsestic memory the interconnections between histories and memories of the holocaust, colonialism and extreme violence in postwar french and francophone fiction and film provide the central focus of this book. Remembering the holocaust in the age of decolonization, stanford, california, stanford university press, 2009. The book s popularity and the ensuing production of white zombie quickly propelled the zombie into the popular imagination as a manifestation of vodous irrational and subversive powers. The holocaust and colonialism in french and francophone fiction and film reprint by silverman, max isbn. Concentrationary art by griselda pollock overdrive. The holocaust and colonialism in french and francophone fiction and film berghahn.
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