Concentrationary Art (eBook)

Jean Cayrol, the Lazarean and the Everyday in Post-war Film, Literature, Music and the Visual Arts

Griselda Pollock, Max Silverman (Herausgeber)

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2019
272 Seiten
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-78533-971-4 (ISBN)

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Largely forgotten over the years, the seminal work of French poet, novelist and camp survivor Jean Cayrol has experienced a revival in the French-speaking world since his death in 2005. His concept of a concentrationary art-the need for an urgent and constant aesthetic resistance to the continuing effects of the concentrationary universe-proved to be a major influence for Hannah Arendt and other writers and theorists across a number of disciplines. Concentrationary Art presents the first translation into English of Jean Cayrol's key essays on the subject, as well as the first book-length study of how we might situate and elaborate his concept of a Lazarean aesthetic in cultural theory, literature, cinema, music and contemporary art.

Autoren

Max Silverman is Professor of Modern French Studies at the University of Leeds. He has written on cultural memory, representations of the Holocaust, and post-colonial theory and cultures. His publications include Palimpsestic Memory: The Holocaust and Colonialism in French and Francophone Fiction and Film (2013). He co-edited Concentrationary Cinema: Aesthetics as Political Resistance in Alain Resnais's Night and Fog (2012).

Griselda Pollock is Professor of Social & Critical Histories of Art and Director of the Centre for Cultural Analysis, Theory & History at the University of Leeds. Her many publications include After-Affects/After-Images: Trauma and Aesthetic Inscription in the Virtual Feminist Museum (2012) and Charlotte Salomon in the Theatre of Memory (2018). She co-edited Concentrationary Cinema: Aesthetics as Political Resistance in Alain Resnais's Night and Fog (2012).

Inhalt

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements

Introduction: Lazarus and the Modern World
Max Silverman

PART I: LAZARUS AMONG US

Jean Cayrol
Lazarean Dreams
Preamble
Prison Dreams
Concentrationary Dreams
Salvation Dreams
Dreams of the Future
Post-concentrationary Dreams
Lazarean Literature

PART II: SITUATING CAYROL’S LAZAREAN

Chapter 1. Lazarean Writing in Post-war France
Patrick ffrench

Chapter 2. The Perpetual Anxiety of Lazarus: The Gaze, the Tomb and the Body in the Shroud
Griselda Pollock

PART III: READING WITH THE LAZAREAN

Chapter 3. Concentrationary Art and the Reading of Everyday Life: (In)human Spaces in Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975)
Max Silverman

Chapter 4. Cinematic Work as Concentrationary Art in Laurent Cantet’s Ressources Humaines (1999)
Matthew John

Chapter 5. After Haunting: A Conceptualization of the Lazarean Image
Benjamin Hannavy Cousen

Chapter 6. Lazarean Sound: The Autonomy of the Auditory from Hanns Eisler (Nuit et Brouillard, 1955) to Susan Philipsz (Night and Fog, 2016)
Griselda Pollock

Concluding Remarks
Griselda Pollock

Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 22.4.2019
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: Jean Cayrol, Concentrationary, Post-war, Frankfurt School, Hannah Arendt
• ISBN-10: 1-78533-971-0 / 1785339710
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78533-971-4 / 9781785339714