Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction: The Long Shadow of the Jewish Question in Paris -- In Search of Shadows Past -- A Brief, Modern History of the Jews of Paris -- Vichy France and the Paris Cultural Scene -- The...
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Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction: The Long Shadow of the Jewish Question in Paris -- In Search of Shadows Past -- A Brief, Modern History of the Jews of Paris -- Vichy France and the Paris Cultural Scene -- The Authors and Their Contexts: The Paris of the Postwar Literature -- Bibliography -- Part 1 Topography -- 2 A Psychogeography of Dora Bruder -- Bibliography -- 3 "Ô popoï, popoï, popoï": Breathless Sobs, Displacement, and Parisian Cartography in Sarah Kofman's Rue Ordener Rue Labat -- Memories, Places, Encounters Mapping Readings of Rue Ordener Rue Labat -- A Gift as Yet Unfully Unwrapped -- Temporality and Displacement -- Reading the Mappings of Rue Ordener Rue Labat -- Place-mapping the Past -- Bibliography -- 4 Perec, Raczymow, and Their Sites of Memory -- The Belleville Neighborhood in the Works of Perec and Raczymow -- The City as a Book -- (Re)mapping Belleville and the rue Vilin -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Part 2 Familiar Strangers -- 5 Comme Dieu en France? Disillusionment and Dreams in Twentieth-Century French Jewish Immigrant Literature -- France in the Eastern European Jewish Imagination City of Dreams, City of Temptations: Paris in French Jewish Literature of the 1920s -- A City of Dreams (and Disappointments) Once More: Paris in the Postwar Sephardic Literary Imagination -- Paris, City of Dreams Fulfilled? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 6 Sarah Kofman: A Strange Familiarity -- Rue Ordener Rue Labat -- The Cadavre, the Cadaveresque -- Two Mothers -- The Carrion Beetle -- Smothered Words -- To Write about That -- And Paris? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Part 3 Ambivalences -- 7 A City of My Own: Paris and Desire in the Works of Patrick Modiano and Georges Perec -- Bibliography 8 Patrick Modiano's Dora Bruder: Wandering Down Memory Lane -- A Topographical Inquiry -- From Biography to Autobiography: An Excursion into Jewish Identity -- Bibliography -- 9 "Paris of Days Gone By": The Quest for Memory in a Postwar Haunted City-A Case Study of Georges Perec's and Patrick Modiano's Novels -- Bibliography -- Part 4 Absence -- 10 Mourning and the Work of Memory in Holocaust Memoirs -- Memory and the Work of Mourning: The Work of Memory -- Repression under Review -- The Primary Mourning of Lost Parents -- Preserving the Bond through Memoir-Writing -- Bibliography 11 Paris Obscur -- Bibliography -- 12 Algerian Echoes in Modiano's and Perec's Cityscapes of Holocaust Memory -- Modiano -- Perec -- Bibliography -- Part 5 Past Imperfect -- 13 Perec's Ghost City -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 14 Street Walking Paris -- Note -- Bibliography -- 15 The Afterlife of Irène Némirovsky's Suite française -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index
