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The Violence of Modernity
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 289

The Violence of Modernity

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2020-03-03
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  • Publisher: JHU Press

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 a climate that tends to privilege crisis over critique, Debarati Sanyal argues that it is urgent to rethink literary experience in terms that recall its contestatory potential. Examining Baudelaire's poems afresh, she shifts the focus of critical attention toward an account of modernism as an active engagement with violence, specifically the violence of history in nineteenth-century France. Sanya...

Memory and Complicity
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 352

Memory and Complicity

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 “memory-in-complicity” attuned to the gray zones that implicate different regimes of violence across history as well as those of different subject positions such as victim, perpetrator, witness, and reader/spectator. Examining a range of works from Albert Camus, Primo Levi, Alain Resnais, and Jean-Paul Sartre to Jonathan Littell, Assia Djebar, Giorgio Agamben, and Boualem Sansal, Memory and Co...

Multidirectional Memory
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 403

Multidirectional Memory

Multidirectional Memory brings together Holocaust studies and postcolonial studies for the first time to put forward a new theory of cultural memory and uncover an unacknowledged tradition of exchange between the legacies of genocide and colonialism.

Writing History, Writing Trauma
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 265

Writing History, Writing Trauma

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-09-03
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  • Publisher: JHU Press

This updated edition includes a substantive new preface that reconsiders some of the issues raised in the book.

Noeuds de Mémoire
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 252

Noeuds de Mémoire

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2010
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  • Publisher: Unknown

"The work of polymath Jean-Francois Lyotard has proved seminal in the best sense of the word: original and historical, both fundamental and far-reaching, neither partisan nor exclusive. This retrospective volume deals with the extraordinary breadth of Lyotard's thought and his wide-ranging impact on critical thinking in the late twentieth century." --Book Jacket.

Properties of Modernity
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 300

Properties of Modernity

Spanish Romantic discourse that highlights ways in which the mythic story of Western modernity was shaped by transnational European power-politics.

The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of World War II
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 259

The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of World War II

An overview of writing about the war from a global perspective, aimed at students of modern literature.

Postcolonial Realms of Memory
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 440

Postcolonial Realms of Memory

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2020
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  • Publisher: Unknown

'An elegant yet accessible work, Postcolonial Realms of Memory not only exposes the colonial blind spot that left Pierre Nora's Lieux de mémoire incomplete, but begins the long task of remedying it. This is a crucial intervention that the field has required for some time.' Gemma King, Contemporary French Civilization

Grotesque Figures
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 284

Grotesque Figures

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2020-03-03
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  • Publisher: JHU Press

Charles Baudelaire is usually read as a paradigmatically modern poet, whose work ushered in a new era of French literature. But the common emphasis on his use of new forms and styles overlooks the complex role of the past in his work. In Grotesque Figures, Virginia E. Swain explores how the specter of the eighteenth century made itself felt in Baudelaire's modern poetry in the pervasive textual and figural presence of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Not only do Rousseau's ideas inform Baudelaire's theory of the grotesque, but Rousseau makes numerous appearances in Baudelaire's poetry as a caricature or type representing the hold of the Enlightenment and the French Revolution over Baudelaire and his c...

Memorylands
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 309

Memorylands

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-07-18
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Memorylands is an original and fascinating investigation of the nature of heritage, memory and understandings of the past in Europe today. It looks at how Europe has become a ’memoryland’ – littered with material reminders of the past, such as museums, heritage sites and memorials; and at how this ‘memory phenomenon’ is related to the changing nature of identities – especially European, national and cosmopolitan. In doing so, it provides new insights into how memory and the past are being performed and reconfigured in Europe – and with what effects. Drawing especially, though not exclusively, on cases, concepts and arguments from social and cultural anthropology, Memorylands ar...