Being Contemporary : French Literature, Culture and Politics Today.

Editor
Brozgal, Lia Nicole, 1972- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Oxford : Liverpool University Press, 2016.
Description
1 online resource (424 pages)

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Editor
Series
Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures LUP. [More in this series]
Summary note
A collection of 23 riveting essays on aspects of contemporary French culture by the superstars of the field.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Source of description
Print version record.
Contents
  • Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Being Contemporary, Then And Now; I. Conceptualizing the Contemporary; 1. Coping with Contemporariness; 2. Rethinking Periodization for the 'Now-Time'; 3. (After) Conceptualism; II. Contemporary Politics and French Thought; 4. Identities in Flux; 5. The Paradoxes of Being Contemporary; 6. Of Sade, Blanchot, and the French Twentieth Century; 7. Alain Badiou and Antisemitism; III. The Second World War and Vichy: Present Perspectives; 8. What Does 'Vichy' Mean Now?; 9. Forces of Solidarity and Logics of Exclusion.
  • 10. Narrative, Testimony, Fiction: The Challenge of Not Forgetting the Holocaust11. 'Moral Witnessing'?: An Israeli Perspective on Jonathan Littell's Les Bienveillantes ; 12. From 'Never Forgetting' to 'Post-Remembering' and 'Co-witnessing'; IV. Writing the Contemporary Self ; 13. 'I' in the Plural: A New Writing of History ; 14. Selves at Risk: Reading Susan Suleiman with Marc Augé, La Vie en double ; 15. Risking Who One Is, at the Risk of Thinking ; 16. 'La Connaissance par corps' : Writing and Self-Exposure in Annie Ernaux; V. Novel Rereadings; 17. Long Live Anachronism.
  • 18. Colette's Côtelettes, or the Word Made Flesh19. Choices: Beckett's Way; 20. Making L'Etranger Contemporary ; VI. Memory: Past and Future ; 21. A Nest in the Air: Phantom Pain and Contemporary Narrative; 22. Adrien and Marcel Proust : Fathering Neurasthenic Memory; 23. Vulnerable Times ; Contributors; Index.
ISBN
  • 9781781384343 ((electronic bk.))
  • 1781384347 ((electronic bk.))
  • 9781781382639
  • 1781382638
  • 1786945193
  • 9781786945198
OCLC
956277698
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