Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Lyons, Patrick

Titel

Absent the Archive: Cultural Traces of a Massacre in Paris, 17 October 1961 by Lia Brozgal (review)

Ist Teil von

• Esprit Créateur, 2021-07, Vol.61 (2), p.168-169

Ort / Verlag

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2021

Quelle

ProQuest_Literature Online_英美文学在线

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The book’s central intervention is to bring together a transhistorical and trans-medium collection of primary creative sources on the October massacre, “to articulate its internal divisions and to speculate on its synergies,” and to “make the anarchive visible” (24). Drawing upon—and moving beyond—work by Derrida in Archive Fever and Brian Massumi’s dispatches from his “Sense Lab,” Brozgal’s concept of the anarchive is situated oppositionally to the archive as an (often state-) institutionalized, orderly site, and opens onto a more chaotic assemblage, lacking authority or common origin. In a brief epilogue, Brozgal points to the absence of the October 17 massacre in discourse following the November 13, 2015, terrorist attacks in Paris, the latter quickly named the “bloodiest day in France since World War II” (311).