Concentrationary Art

The volume is a true labour of love, makes for fascinating reading, and at last offers us Cayrol in English translationThe articles take us on a fascinating journey in which Cayrols idea of the concentrationary and the figure of Lazarus are explored as theories with their own historiesThese analyses across dierent artistic forms and historical periods demonstrate how fertile Cayrols ideas were. Modern Language Review This is a politically urgent volume and an excellent resource for anyone studying the cultural or representational legacies of the concentration camp as both event and form, its (post)traumatic manifestations or memory in the contemporary world. Textual Practice Concentrationary Art is invariably intellectually exhilarating to read, and is hard to put down. It puts forward a new and cogent aesthetic theory in its analysis not only of the wartime concentrationary, but also of the role of the survivor in a post-war world where traces of the same phenomena persist unseen in the everyday. Sue Vice, University of Sheffield This is an authoritative, clear, and insightful book. The contributions to this excellent volume offer a novel take on the concentrationary and provide a wider understanding of post-Holocaust art. Kathryn Robson, Newcastle University

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 Transformation 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).

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: Lazarus and the Modern World Max Silverman PART I: LAZARUS AMONG US Jean Cayrol Lazarean Dreams Lazarean Literature PART II: SITUATING CAYROLS 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 Akermans Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975) Max Silverman Chapter 4. Cinematic Work as Concentrationary Art in Laurent Cantets 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