Author: Gerard Genette
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Keywords: stages, degree, second, literature, palimpsests
Number of Pages: 491
Published: 1997-10-28
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 0803270291
ISBN-13: 9780803270299

By definition, a palimpsest is “a written document, usually on vellum or parchment, that has been written upon several times, often with remnants of erased writing still visible.” Palimpsests (originally published in France in 1982), one of Gérard Genette’s most important works, examines the manifold relationships a text may have with prior texts. Genette describes the multiple ways a later text asks readers to read or remember an earlier one. In this regard, he treats the history and nature of parody, antinovels, pastiches, caricatures, commentary, allusion, imitations, and other textu

Author: Jose Quiroga
Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
Keywords: americas, studies, cultural, palimpsests, cuban
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 2005-11-10
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0816642141
ISBN-13: 9780816642144

Four decades ago, the Cuban revolution captured the world’s attention and imagination. Its impact around the world was as much cultural as geopolitical. Within Cuba, the state developed a strictly defined national and collective memory that led directly from a colonial past to a utopian future, but this narrative came to a halt in the early 1990s. The collapse of Cuba’s sponsor, the Soviet Union, and the end of the Cold War preceded the so- called “Special Period in Times of Peace,” a euphemistic phrase that masked the genuine anxiety shared by leaders and people about the nation’s f

Author: Andreas Huyssen
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Keywords: present, memory, cultural, politics, palimpsests, pasts, urban
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2003-01-15
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 0804745617
ISBN-13: 9780804745611

Memory of historical trauma has a unique power to generate works of art. This book analyzes the relation of public memory to history, forgetting, and selective memory in Berlin, Buenos Aires, and New York—three late-twentieth-century cities that have confronted major social or political traumas. Berlin experienced the fall of the Berlin Wall and the city’s reemergence as the German capital; Buenos Aires lived through the dictatorships of the 1970s and 1980s and their legacy of state terror and disappearances; and New York City faces a set of public memory issues concerning the symbolic v