Crises of memory and the Second World War / Susan Rubin Suleiman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Suleiman, Susan Rubin, 1939-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World War, 1939-1945--Historiography.

World War, 1939-1945.

Historiography.

Memory--Social aspects.

Memory.

Memory--Psychological aspects.

Narration (Rhetoric).

Physical Description:

x, 286 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2006.

Contents:

Introduction: Crises of Memory 1

1 "Choosing Our Past": Jean-Paul Sartre as Memoirist of Occupied France 13

2 Narrative Desire: The "Aubrac Affair" and National Memory of the French Resistance 36

3 Commemorating the Illustrious Dead: Jean Moulin and Andre Malraux 62

4 History, Memory, and Moral Judgment after the Holocaust: Marcel Ophuls's Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie 77

5 Anamnesis: Remembering Jewish Identity in Central Europe after Communism: Istvan Szabo's Sunshine 106

6 Revision: Historical Trauma and Literary Testimony: The Buchenwald Memoirs of Jorge Semprun 132

7 Do Facts Matter in Holocaust Memoirs?: Wilkomirski/Wiesel 159

8 The Edge of Memory: Experimental Writing and the 1.5 Generation: Perec/Federman 178

9 Amnesia and Amnesty: Reflections on Forgetting and Forgiving 215.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-277) and index.

ISBN:

0674022068

OCLC:

61859890

Publisher Number:

9780674022065