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CRISES OF MEMORY AND THE SECOND WORLD WAR
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Comparative Literature
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July 1, 2008
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CRISES OF MEMORY AND THE SECOND WORLD WAR. By Susan Rubin Suleiman. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2006. x, 286 p.
As Paul Valéry observed, "our memory repeats to us what we haven't understood. Repetition is addressed to incomprehension."1 In this important book, which makes a major contribution to interdisciplinary debates concerning European memories of the Holocaust and the second World War, Susan Rubin Suleiman probes key textual episodes in which individual recollections of war intersect with collective or public memory. Focusing primarily on the poetic and ethical uses of memory, she offers a series of provocative and subtle readings of cultural and historical ...
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