Crises of memory and the Second World War
By: Suleiman, Susan Rubin Suleiman.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9780674022065
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 -- Historiography.; Memory -- Social aspects.; Memory -- Psychological aspects.; Narration (Rhetoric)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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