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The Violence of Modernity: Baudelaire, Irony, and the Politics of Form (Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society)
The Violence of Modernity turns to Charles Baudelaire, one of the most canonical figures of literary modernism, in order to reclaim an aesthetic legacy for ethical inquiry and historical critique. Works of modern literature are commonly theorized as symptomatic responses to the trauma of history. In... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2007 -
Memory and Complicity: Migrations of Holocaust Remembrance
Since World War II, French and Francophone literature and film have repeatedly sought not to singularize the Holocaust as the paradigm of historical trauma but rather to connect its memory with other memories of violence, namely that of colonialism. These works produced what Debarati Sanyal calls a ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015 -
The Construction of Testimony: Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah and Its Outtakes (Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series)
by Brad Prager • Noah Shenker • Tobias Ebbrecht-Hartmann • Debarati Sanyal • Sue Vice • Dorota Glowacka • Erin McGlothlin • Markus Zisselsberger • Jennifer Cazenave • Regina Longo • Leslie Swift • Gary Weissman • Leah Wolfson • Michel VranaIn The Construction of Testimony: Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah and Its Outtakes, editors Erin McGlothlin, Brad Prager, and Markus Zisselsberger gather contributions on how Shoah (1985) fundamentally changed the nature and use of filmed testimony and laid the groundwork for how historians and documentaria... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020