Illustrations
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction: The Long Shadow of the Jewish Question in
Paris
Part I: Topography
2. A Psychogeography of Dora Bruder
Julia Creet
3. "Ô popoï, popoï, popoï": Breathless Sobs, Displacement, and
Parisian Cartography in Sarah Kofman's Rue Ordener Rue Labat
Gary D. Mole
4. Perec, Raczymow, and Their Sites of Memory
Annelies Schulte Nordholt
Part II: Familiar Strangers
5. Comme Dieu en France? Disillusionment and Dreams in
Twentieth-Century French Jewish Immigrant Literature
Nadia Malinovich
6. Sarah Kofman: A Strange Familiarity
Henri Raczymow
Part III: Ambivalences
7. A City of My Own: Paris and Desire in the Works of Patrick
Modiano and Georges Perec
Amira Bojadzija-Dan
8. Patrick Modiano's Dora Bruder: Wandering Down Memory Lane
Maxime Decout
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
Ruth Malka
Part IV: Absence
10. Mourning and the Work of Memory in Holocaust Memoirs
L. Scott Lerner
11. Paris Obscur
Thomas Nolden
12. Algerian Echoes in Modiano's and Perec's Cityscapes of
Holocaust Memory
Sarah Hammerschlag
Part V: Past Imperfect
13. Perec's Ghost City
Nelly Wolf
14. Street Walking Paris
Sara R. Horowitz
15. The Afterlife of Irène Némirovsky's Suite française
Susan Rubin Suleiman
Contributors
Index
Sara R. Horowitz is Professor of Humanities and Comparative Literature at York University and the author of Voicing the Void: Muteness and Memory in Holocaust Fiction, also published by SUNY Press. Amira Bojadzija-Dan is Research Associate at the Israel and Golda Koschitzky Centre for Jewish Studies at York University. Julia Creet is Professor of English at York University and the author of The Genealogical Sublime. Together, they are also coeditors of H. G. Adler: Life, Literature, Legacy.
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