Palimpsestic Memory

Introduction: Staging Memory as Palimpsest Chapter 1. The Politics and Poetics of Memory 1.1 The Concentrationary Universe and Total Domination 1.2 The Politics of Memory: Between the Holocaust and Colonialism 1.3 The Poetics of Memory 1.4 Interconnecting Memories Chapter 2. Concentrationary Memory 2.1 Fearful Imagination 2.2 Alain Resnais's Nuit et brouillard 2.3 Memoire-monde Chapter 3. Anti-colonialism Revisited 3.1 Frantz Fanon: Peau noire masques blancs 3.2 Mohammed Dib: Qui se souvient de la mer 3.3 Assia Djebar: Femmes d'Alger dans leur appartement Chapter 4. Colonial Hauntings of the Holocaust Imaginary 4.1 Charlotte Delbo: Auschwitz et apres 4.2 Georges Perec: W ou le souvenir d'enfance 4.3 Patrick Modiano: Dora Bruder Chapter 5. The Memory of the Image 5.1 Jean-Luc Godard:Histoire(s) du cinema 5.2 Michael Haneke: Cache 5.3 'Un montage qui ne separe rien' Chapter 6. Memory Traces 6.1 Helene Cixous's 'Pieds nus' and Jacques Derrida's Le Monolinguisme de l'autre, ou le prothese de l'origine 6.2 Patrick Chamoiseau and Rodolphe Hammadi: Guyane: Traces-memoires du bagne Chapter 7. Cosmopolitical Memory Bibliography Index

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