The Black Hole of Memory: French Mnemotechniques in the Erasure of the Holocaust
“Never forget” is one of the key injunctions uttered by which to remember the Holocaust. But the call to memory ran afoul of various debates among French philosophers and historians in the context of the post-World War II “memory wars.” France is a particularly problematic site for the urgency of re...
Main Author: | Michael Dorland |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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University of Toronto Libraries
2017-02-01
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Series: | MediaTropes |
Online Access: | http://www.mediatropes.com/index.php/Mediatropes/article/view/26977 |
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