| Edition |
First Harvard University Press paperback edition. |
| Description |
x, 286 pages : portraits ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-277) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : crises of memory -- "Choosing our past" : Jean-Paul Sartre as memoirist of Occupied France -- Narrative desire : the "Aubrac affair" and national memory of the French Resistance -- Commemorating the illustrious dead : Jean Moulin and André Malraux -- History, memory, and moral judgment after the Holocaust : Marcel Ophuls's Hotel Terminus : the life and times of Klaus Barbie -- Anamnesis : remembering Jewish identity in Central Europe after Communism : István Szabó's Sunshine -- Revision : historical trauma and literary testimony : the Buchenwald memoirs of Jorge Semprun -- Do facts matter in Holocaust memoirs? : Wilkomirski/Wiesel -- The edge of memory : experimental writing and the 1.5 generation : Perec/Federman -- Amnesia and amnesty : reflections on forgetting and forgiving. |
| Subject |
World War, 1939-1945 -- Historiography.
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Historiography.
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in motion pictures.
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Jews -- Identity -- History -- 20th century.
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Collective memory.
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Narration (Rhetoric)
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| ISBN |
0674027620 |
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9780674027626 |
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