Shadows in the City of Light : Paris in Postwar French Jewish Writing.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Horowitz, Sara R., 1951-

Contributor:

Bojadzija-Dan, Amira, 1966-

Creet, Julia, 1958-

Series:

SUNY Series in Contemporary Jewish Literature and Culture

SUNY Series in Contemporary Jewish Literature and Culture.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

French literature--Jewish authors--History and criticism.

French literature.

French literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature.

Jews--France--Identity.

Jews.

Judaism and literature--France--Paris--History--20th century.

Judaism and literature.

Paris (France)--In literature.

Paris (France).

France.

France--Paris.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (280 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, 2021.

Summary:

Examines the place of Paris in French Jewish literary memory, a memory that, of necessity, grapples with the aftermath of the Holocaust.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgments

1 Introduction: The Long Shadow of the Jewish Question in Paris

In Search of Shadows Past

A Brief, Modern History of the Jews of Paris

Vichy France and the Paris Cultural Scene

The Authors and Their Contexts: The Paris of the Postwar Literature

Bibliography

Part 1 Topography

2 A Psychogeography of Dora Bruder

3 "Ô popoï, popoï, popoï": Breathless Sobs, Displacement, and Parisian Cartography in Sarah Kofman's Rue Ordener Rue Labat

Memories, Places, Encounters

Mapping Readings of Rue Ordener Rue Labat

A Gift as Yet Unfully Unwrapped

Temporality and Displacement

Reading the Mappings of Rue Ordener Rue Labat

Place-mapping the Past

4 Perec, Raczymow, and Their Sites of Memory

The Belleville Neighborhood in the Works of Perec and Raczymow

The City as a Book

(Re)mapping Belleville and the rue Vilin

Notes

Part 2 Familiar Strangers

5 Comme Dieu en France? Disillusionment and Dreams in Twentieth-Century French Jewish Immigrant Literature

France in the Eastern European Jewish Imagination

City of Dreams, City of Temptations: Paris in French Jewish Literature of the 1920s

A City of Dreams (and Disappointments) Once More: Paris in the Postwar Sephardic Literary Imagination

Paris, City of Dreams Fulfilled?

6 Sarah Kofman: A Strange Familiarity

Rue Ordener Rue Labat

The Cadavre, the Cadaveresque

Two Mothers

The Carrion Beetle

Smothered Words

To Write about That

And Paris?

Part 3 Ambivalences

7 A City of My Own: Paris and Desire in the Works of Patrick Modiano and Georges Perec

8 Patrick Modiano's Dora Bruder: Wandering Down Memory Lane

A Topographical Inquiry.

From Biography to Autobiography: An Excursion into Jewish Identity

9 "Paris of Days Gone By": The Quest for Memory in a Postwar Haunted City-A Case Study of Georges Perec's and Patrick Modiano's Novels

Part 4 Absence

10 Mourning and the Work of Memory in Holocaust Memoirs

Memory and the Work of Mourning: The Work of Memory

Repression under Review

The Primary Mourning of Lost Parents

Preserving the Bond through Memoir-Writing

11 Paris Obscur

12 Algerian Echoes in Modiano's and Perec's Cityscapes of Holocaust Memory

Modiano

Perec

Part 5 Past Imperfect

13 Perec's Ghost City

14 Street Walking Paris

Note

15 The Afterlife of Irène Némirovsky's Suite française

Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781438481753

1438481756

OCLC:

1244623622