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Crises of Memory and the Second World War by Susan Rubin Suleiman (2006, Hardcover)

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PublisherHarvard University Press

ISBN-100674022068

ISBN-139780674022065

eBay Product ID (ePID)49202641

Product Key Features

Number of Pages296 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameCrises of Memory and the Second World War

Publication Year2006

SubjectHolocaust, Military / World War II, Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, Rhetoric

TypeTextbook

AuthorSusan Rubin Suleiman

Subject AreaLanguage Arts & Disciplines, Psychology, History

FormatHardcover

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Item Height1 in

Item Weight19.8 Oz

Item Length9.2 in

Item Width6.1 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2005-049540

ReviewsSuleiman's book results from prolonged reflection going back at least to her autobiographical Budapest Diary (1996). The textual analyses illustrating the evolution of collective memory range chronologically from Sartre's essays on the Occupation to 21st-century works, including novels, essays, memoirs, and documentary and fictional films...Although she cites numerous studies in several languages, from various disciplines, Suleiman's erudition never overpowers or descends to jargon. She poses crucial questions about writing and rewriting, or narrative and generic expectations, debating with other theorists as she does so. Suleiman has written a beautiful book, one that tackles uncomfortable questions about official myths and commemorations, juridically unforgettable crimes, and Jewish identity versus national assimilation. The adjective 'exhilarating,' which Suleiman uses to describe Elie Wiesel's self-correction in All Rivers Run to the Sea, applies equally to this book. The vast WW II and Holocaust literature has needed a study of this clarity and brilliance. Summing Up: Essential., Suleiman's book results from prolonged reflection going back at least to her autobiographical Budapest Diary (1996). The textual analyses illustrating the evolution of collective memory range chronologically from Sartre's essays on the Occupation to 21st-century works, including novels, essays, memoirs, and documentary and fictional films...Although she cites numerous studies in several languages, from various disciplines, Suleiman's erudition never overpowers or descends to jargon. She poses crucial questions about writing and rewriting, or narrative and generic expectations, debating with other theorists as she does so. Suleiman has written a beautiful book, one that tackles uncomfortable questions about official myths and commemorations, juridically unforgettable crimes, and Jewish identity versus national assimilation. The adjective 'exhilarating,' which Suleiman uses to describe Elie Wiesel's self-correction in All Rivers Run to the Sea , applies equally to this book. The vast WW II and Holocaust literature has needed a study of this clarity and brilliance. Summing Up: Essential., Suleiman's book offers us no sure way of overcoming "crises of memory," but it admirably succeeds in guiding us through a memory landscape that is still (or again) littered with explosive underground mines., Suleiman's erudite and elegant essays display a profound understanding of the complexities of memory.

Dewey Edition22

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal940.5301/9

Table Of ContentIntroduction: Crises of Memory 1. Choosing Our Past Jean-Paul Sartre as Memoirist of Occupied France 2. Narrative Desire The Aubrac Affair and National Memory of the French Resistance 3. Commemorating the Illustrious Dead Jean Moulin and AndrÉ Malraux 4. History, Memory, and Moral Judgment after the Holocaust Marcel Ophuls's Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie 5. Anamnesis: Remembering Jewish Identity in Central Europe after Communism IstvÁn Szaboactute;'s Sunshine 6. Revision: Historical Trauma and Literary Testimony The Buchenwald Memoirs of Jorge Semprun 7. Do Facts Matter in Holocaust Memoirs? Wilkomirski/Wiesel 8. The Edge of Memory: Experimental Writing and the 1.5 Generation Perec/Federman 9. Amnesia and Amnesty: Reflections on Forgetting and Forgiving Notes Works Cited Index

SynopsisThe author explores contested terrain, where individual memories converge with public remembrance of traumatic events. She argues that memories of World War II, transcend national boundaries, due to the global nature of the war and to the global presence of the Holocaust as a site of collective memory.

LC Classification NumberD743.42.S85 2006