“Wrong. We have to struggle towards it, forward, forward, word by word, to find this past. In other words, I have to tell you, if I want to find out what happened to me.
(Robert Kelly, The Book from the Sky)
Memory is performative. To remember is to repeat.
Not every memory gets performed and repeated. Some memories are so horrific that we censor their re-presentation. Perpetrator memories of the Holocaust as sexual extravaganza belong to this category.
Liliana Cavani’s controversial 1974 movie The Night Porter has been labeled “Nazi chic” (Roger Ebert). For some critics the film [...]
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