TY - BOOK ID - 533103 TI - Palimpsestic Memory PY - 2013 SN - 9780857458834 9780857458841 0857458833 1299777635 1782389008 0857458841 9781782389002 9781299777637 PB - New York Oxford DB - UniCat KW - Thematology KW - French literature KW - Film KW - anno 1940-1949 KW - French fiction KW - Colonies in literature. KW - Colonies in motion pictures. KW - Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature. KW - Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in motion pictures. KW - Roman français KW - Colonies dans la littérature KW - Colonies au cinéma KW - Holocauste, 1939-1945 dans la littérature KW - Holocauste, 1939-1945, au cinéma KW - History and criticism. KW - History and criticism KW - Histoire et critique KW - Roman français KW - Colonies dans la littérature KW - Colonies au cinéma KW - Holocauste, 1939-1945 dans la littérature KW - Holocauste, 1939-1945, au cinéma KW - Motion pictures KW - French fiction - 20th century - History and criticism KW - French fiction - French-speaking countries - History and criticism KW - Colonies in literature KW - Colonies in motion pictures KW - Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature KW - Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in motion pictures UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:533103 AB - The interconnections between histories and memories of the Holocaust, colonialism and extreme violence in post-war French and Francophone fiction and film provide the central focus of this book. It proposes a new model of 'palimpsestic memory', which the author defines as the condensation of different spatio-temporal traces, to describe these interconnections and defines the poetics and the politics of this composite form. In doing so it is argued that a poetics dependent on tropes and techniques, such as metaphor, allegory and montage, establishes connections across space and time which obli ER -