Memory and complicity : migrations of Holocaust remembrance /

Since World War II, French and Francophone literature and film have repeatedly sought not to singularize the Holocaust as the paradigm of historical trauma but rather to connect its memory with other memories of violence, namely that of colonialism. These works produced what Debarati Sanyal calls a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Sanyal, Debarati, 1969- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Fordham University Press, 2015.
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Historiography. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in motion pictures. Collective memory > France. Collective memory > French-speaking countries. Colonization > Social aspects. Violence > Social aspects. Art > Political aspects. France > Intellectual life. French-speaking countries > Intellectual life. HISTORY / Holocaust. LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French. LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory.

Table of Contents:

Introduction
Chapter One: A Soccer Match in Auschwitz : Passing Trauma in Holocaust Studies
From Primo Levi's Gray Zone to Giorgio Agamben's Shame
Traumatic Complicity
From Paradigm to Figure : Rereading the Gray Zone as Allegory
Chapter Two: Concentrationary Migrations in and around Albert Camus
Figural Contagion and Historical cordon sanitaire : The Plague
Memory and Migration : Reenvisioning Algeria
Concentrationary Circulations : Le Métier à tisser and Night and Fog
Figure as Archive : Reading The Fall with Auschwitz and Algeria
History's Endless Cry : Allegory Unbound in The Fall
Chapter Three: Auschwitz as Allegory : From Night and Fog to Guantanamo Bay
An Aesthetics of Complicity
Allegory, Ruins, and History
The Transcultural Politics of Concentrationary Memory
Colonial Countermemories : Night and Fog in Thiaroye
Coda: From Postwar France to Guantanamo Bay
Chapter Four: Crabwalk History : Torture, Allegory, and Memory in Sartre
Chapter 5: Reading Nazi Memory in Jonathan Littell's The Kindly Ones
Memory's Manufacture : The "Complicity Effect" of a Perpetrator's Testimony
Itineraries of Trauma and Tourism
Imperial Lanscapes : Intersections of Colonialism and Genocide
Chapter Six: Holocaust and Colonial Memory in the Age of Terror : Assia Djebar and Boualem Sansal
Urban Palimpsests and the Claims of Memory in Assia Djebar's Les Nuits de Strasbourg
Against Identification : Bad Education, Trauma, and Citizenship
Holocaust Memory, Gray Zones and the War on Terror : Boualem Sansal's Le Village de l'Allemand
Afterword.