Crises of memory and the Second World War
By: Susan Rubin Suleiman
Edition: 1st Harvard Univ. Press pbk. ed.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9780674044135
Subjects: Historiography; Collective memory; World War II; Narration (Rhetoric); World War, 1939-1945; Military; HISTORY
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-277) and index.

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Table of contents: title: Introduction: Crises of memory.; title: "Choosing our past": Jean-Paul Sartre as memoirist of Occupied France.; title: Narrative desire: the "Aubrac affair" and national memory of the French Resistance.; title: Commemorating the illustrious dead: Jean Moulin and André Malraux.; title: History, memory, and moral judgment after the Holocaust: Marcel Ophuls's Hotel Terminus: the life and times of Klaus Barbie.; title: Anamnesis: remembering Jewish identity in Central Europe after Communism: István Szabó's Sunshine.; title: Revision: historical trauma and literary testimony: the Buchenwald memoirs of Jorge Semprun.; title: Do facts matter in Holocaust memoirs?: Wilkomirski/Wiesel.; title: The edge of memory: experimental writing and the 1.5 generation: Perec/Federman.; title: Amnesia and amnesty: reflections on forgetting and forgiving.