Silverman (modern French studies, U. of Leeds, UK) uses the term palimpsestic memory to describe a layering of memories-- something like a haunting of the present by past experiences--which he finds i
First published in 1952, Frantz Fanon's Black Skin, White Masks is one of the most important anti-colonial works of the post-war period. It is both a profound critique of the conscious and unconscious
This first collection of essays specifically devoted to Fanon's Black Skin, White Mask offers a wide range of interpretations of the text by leading scholars in a number of disciplines. Chapters deal
In 1945, French political prisoners returning from the concentration camps of Germany coined the phrase ‘the concentrationary universe’ to describe the camps as a terrible political experiment in the
Since its completion in 1955, Alain Resnais's Night and Fog (Nuit et Brouillard) has been considered one of the most important films to confront the catastrophe and atrocities of the Nazi era. But was
Concentrationary cinema used radical techniques of montage and disorientation, camera movements, and counterpointed commentary to puncture the normality of post-war reconstruction. There are several f
This volume focuses on postwar approaches to the past, the nature of collective memory, and issues of cultural memory in a transnational age. The essays probe points of contact between memories and l
