Shadows in the City of Light: Paris in Postwar French Jewish Writing

Author:   Sara R. Horowitz ,  Amira Bojadzija-Dan ,  Julia Creet
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
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Pages:   278
Publication Date:   01 May 2021
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Sara R. Horowitz ,  Amira Bojadzija-Dan ,  Julia Creet
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.227kg
ISBN:  

9781438481739


ISBN 10:   143848173
Pages:   278
Publication Date:   01 May 2021
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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"Illustrations Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: The Long Shadow of the Jewish Question in Paris Part I: Topography 2. A Psychogeography of Dora Bruder Julia Creet 3. ""Ô popoï, popoï, popoï"": Breathless Sobs, Displacement, and Parisian Cartography in Sarah Kofman's Rue Ordener Rue Labat Gary D. Mole 4. Perec, Raczymow, and Their Sites of Memory Annelies Schulte Nordholt Part II: Familiar Strangers 5. Comme Dieu en France? Disillusionment and Dreams in Twentieth-Century French Jewish Immigrant Literature Nadia Malinovich 6. Sarah Kofman: A Strange Familiarity Henri Raczymow Part III: Ambivalences 7. A City of My Own: Paris and Desire in the Works of Patrick Modiano and Georges Perec Amira Bojadzija-Dan 8. Patrick Modiano's Dora Bruder: Wandering Down Memory Lane Maxime Decout 9. ""Paris of Days Gone By"": The Quest for Memory in a Postwar Haunted City—A Case Study of Georges Perec's and Patrick Modiano's Novels Ruth Malka Part IV: Absence 10. Mourning and the Work of Memory in Holocaust Memoirs L. Scott Lerner 11. Paris Obscur Thomas Nolden 12. Algerian Echoes in Modiano's and Perec's Cityscapes of Holocaust Memory Sarah Hammerschlag Part V: Past Imperfect 13. Perec's Ghost City Nelly Wolf 14. Street Walking Paris Sara R. Horowitz 15. The Afterlife of Irène Némirovsky's Suite française Susan Rubin Suleiman Contributors Index"

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Sara R. Horowitz is Professor of Humanities and Comparative Literature at York University and the author of Voicing the Void: Muteness and Memory in Holocaust Fiction, also published by SUNY Press. Amira Bojadzija-Dan is Research Associate at the Israel and Golda Koschitzky Centre for Jewish Studies at York University. Julia Creet is Professor of English at York University and the author of The Genealogical Sublime. Together, they are also coeditors of H. G. Adler: Life, Literature, Legacy.

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