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Romanic Review (2006) 97 (3-4): 461–482.
Published: 01 May 2006
...Dana Renga Copyright © 2006 The Trustees of Columbia University 2006 Dana Renga STAGING MEMORY AND TRAUMA IN FRENCH AND ITALIAN HOLOCAUST FILM Reading Memory in the French Documentary and the Italian Fiction Film The memory lapses of trauma are conjoined with the tendency compulsively...
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Romanic Review (2014) 105 (1-2): 69–86.
Published: 01 January 2014
...Susan Rubin Suleiman Copyright © 2014 The Trustees of Columbia University 2014 Susan Rubin Suleiman THE STAKES IN HOLOCAUST REPRESENTATION: ON TARANTINO'S INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS D espite its unalterable march into past history, the Holocaust remains an object of fascination to contemporary...
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Romanic Review (2021) 112 (2): 321–335.
Published: 01 September 2021
... evokes the personal and collective trauma of the Holocaust. Copyright © 2021 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York 2021 Georges Perec food hunger memory trauma Holocaust In her last published book, Word of Mouth: What We Talk about When We Talk about Food...
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Romanic Review (2010) 101 (1-2): 115–122.
Published: 01 January 2010
... at the success of trauma as a paradigm in literary studies. Indeed, professors of French pioneered the study of trauma in literature, which originated in the 1990s, as a way of interpreting texts relating to the Second World War and specifically to the Holocaust or Shoah. This trend has yet to run its course...
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Romanic Review (2014) 105 (1-2): 53–68.
Published: 01 January 2014
... The dangers of contemporary faction as he defines it are in Beevor's view essentially twofold. First, given that the subject matter of much recent faction is the terrible traumas of the recent past (the Holocaust, the Cold War, the experience of totalitarianism), mixing fact and fiction irresponsibly can give...
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Romanic Review (2009) 100 (4): 579–582.
Published: 01 November 2009
.... One learns a lot from it about, as the title suggests, his relationship with-note the surname-Joseph Gottlieb, about the Paris neighborhood, and, more generally, about subculture. That relationship with Gottlieb, a Holocaust survivor, was "disastrous" at first but then finally friendly. Disastrous...
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Romanic Review (2017) 108 (1-4): 93–95.
Published: 01 January 2017
...Tom Trezise Tom Trezise REMEMBERING ROSS Afew years ago, Ross Chambers was asked by a university press to evaluate a manuscript I d submitted on the reception of Holocaust survivor testimony. In his report, Ross made it clear that it was fine with him if his identity was shared with the author. I...
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Romanic Review (2010) 101 (3): 425–444.
Published: 01 May 2010
... Only simplification, with its inevitable despoiling of the complexity of the meanings of the Holocaust, could render the Holocaust graspable. Therein lies both the crux of the matter and a paradox: if one must simplify to comprehend, then to comprehend is to fail to comprehend. Simplification for Levi...
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Romanic Review (2009) 100 (4): 575–579.
Published: 01 November 2009
... written, cunningly shaped work. One learns a lot from it about, as the title suggests, his relationship with-note the surname-Joseph Gottlieb, about the Paris neighborhood, and, more generally, about subculture. That relationship with Gottlieb, a Holocaust survivor, was "disastrous" at first...
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Romanic Review (2014) 105 (1-2): 103–106.
Published: 01 January 2014
... of turning to tragedy to represent the Holocaust, and the second the relation of tragedy, as the most archaic and noble of genres, to other less-noble forms of READING PHIL WATTS ON LES BIENVEILIANTES 105 representation." In order to hone in on these issues, Phil turns to what might be called Hannah Arendt's...
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Romanic Review (2006) 97 (3-4): 265–274.
Published: 01 May 2006
..., other, and world, in which the subject's "utter, potentially devastating precariousness" is revealed while at the same time affirming both self-awareness and agency, and ultimately a constantly shifting, neither authoritative nor absent, identity. In Dana Renga's essay on Italian and French Holocaust...
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Romanic Review (2014) 105 (1-2): 91–96.
Published: 01 January 2014
... participated in the creation of the Task Force for International Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance, and Research, launched in Stockholm in 2000. France also contributed to the institutionalization of a day of European commemoration on January 27 (the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz...
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Romanic Review (2006) 97 (3-4): 563–564.
Published: 01 May 2006
... in the Franco-Italian Fin de Siecle," 371-400 Renga, Dana, "Staging Memory and Trauma in French and Italian Holocaust Film," 461-82 Renner, Bernd, Ni l'un ni l'autre et tous les deux a la fois': Ie paradoxe menippeen inverse dans Ie Tiers Livre de Rabelais," 153-68 Ricciardi, Alessia, "The Italian Redemption...
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Romanic Review (2014) 105 (1-2): 7–8.
Published: 01 January 2014
... situating that controversy in relation to other recent controversies about the representation of the Holocaust in films such as Life Is Beautiful and Train of Life. Suleiman also addresses the metacinematic dimensions of Inglourious Basterds, largely unexplored in the often highly partisan reactions...
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Romanic Review (2016) 107 (1-4): 19–20.
Published: 01 January 2016
... challenges in her life. She was a survivor of the Holocaust and a female professor in an often sexist academic environment. She had the strength to persevere and to serve as an example for all of us. She will be deeply missed. In our work with our students and colleagues, in our scholarship, and in our...
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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (2): 401–419.
Published: 01 September 2023
... present a skin phenotype supposedly amenable to Germanification. L’esperit del temps shines light on an aspect of the Holocaust that has received lesser attention in Iberian cultural production, namely, the repopulation of Poland and other eastern European regions by German colonists after...
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Romanic Review (2014) 105 (1-2): 129–131.
Published: 01 January 2014
... Cornell's file. It was Phil who broke the standoff between formal analysis and political analysis of Celine by showing that Celine's "petite musique" was a political alibi. He took the analysis of Celine further, into the postwar writings, and showed what Celine borrowed from the theories of Holocaust...
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Romanic Review (2001) 92 (4): 491–511.
Published: 01 November 2001
... to the transparency of his text, indeed that it was his highest intent. After all, Levi opposed obscurity in writing on the Holocaust, going so far as to criticize the "obscurity and darkness"of Paul Celan's poetry in an interview to Auschwitz, and provides a photograph of her (153). Yanda Maestro would not survive...
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Romanic Review (2016) 107 (1-4): 13–16.
Published: 01 January 2016
... ortrait: like Vigée Le Brun, Gita s successful life as a scholar and a teacher was built against formidable odds not only the odds of surviving the Nazi occupation of Belgium and the Holocaust but also (not comparable, of course, but nonetheless daunting) the odds of an academic culture rigged against...
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Romanic Review (2006) 97 (1): 94–98.
Published: 01 January 2006
... dotting the i's and crossing the t's. Nothing could be further froll1 the truth, as this welconle new book, the revised version of a doctoral dissertation defended a few years ago at McGill University, nlakes abundantly clear. De /a Beaute C011111ze violence does not deal with the Holocaust...