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Two immigrant brothers discover the truth about their German father's past in this masterly investigation of evil, resistance and guilt, billed as "the first Arab novel to confront the Holocaust." Narrator Malrich, the younger son of a German father and an Algerian mother, lives with relatives in a gritty, mostly Arab housing estate outside Paris. Malrich is an indifferent hoodlum while his older brother, Rachel, has a university degree and a glamorous job at "a multinational." The plot hinges on Malrich's reading of Rachel's diary after Rachel commits suicide. After their parents were murdered in Algeria in 1994, Rachel discovered that their father was a Waffen SS officer posted to the death camps. In alternating chapters, the story is perfectly rendered in Malrich's wonderfully adolescent voice and Rachel's increasingly agonized diary entries. All this plays out against Malrich's perceptive likening of Hitler's Germany to the rise of fundamentalist Islamism on his housing estate...

Algerian fiction (French). --- Banlieues --- Brothers --- Erwachsener Sohn. --- Families --- Familles --- Frères --- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) --- Holocauste, 1939-1945 --- Islamisme --- Judenvernichtung. --- Recherche. --- Roman algérien (français). --- Selbstmord. --- Vater. --- Vergangenheitsbewältigung. --- Aspect social --- Algerien. --- Algérie --- Frankreich. --- Intégration

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"This book explores the diverse ways in which Holocaust representations have influenced and structured how other genocides are understood and represented in the West. Rebecca Jinks focuses in particular on the canonical 20th century cases of genocide: Armenia, Cambodia, Bosnia, and Rwanda. Using literature, film, photography, and memorialisation, she demonstrates that we can only understand the Holocaust's status as a 'benchmark' for other genocides if we look at the deeper, structural resonances which subtly shape many representations of genocide. Representing Genocide pursues five thematic areas in turn: how genocides are recognised as such by western publics; the representation of the origins and perpetrators of genocide; how western witnesses represent genocide; representations of the aftermath of genocide; and western responses to genocide. Throughout, the book distinguishes between 'mainstream' and other, more nuanced and engaged, representations of genocide. It shows how these mainstream representations ... the majority ... largely replicate the representational framework of the Holocaust, including the way in which mainstream Holocaust representations resist recognising the rationality, instrumentality and normality of genocide, preferring instead to present it as an aberrant, exceptional event in human society. By contrast, the more engaged representations ... often, but not always, originating from those who experienced genocide ... tend to revolve around precisely genocide's ordinariness, and the structures and situations common to human society which contribute to and become involved in the violence"..."Analyses the historical and cultural representation of the Armenian, Cambodian, Bosnian and Rwandan genocides and the impact of the Holocaust"...

HISTORY / Holocaust. --- HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century. --- Genocide --- Genocide in mass media. --- Holocaust. --- Génocide --- Génocide dans les médias --- History. --- Histoire --- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) --- Holocauste, 1939-1945 --- HISTORY / Holocaust / bisacsh. --- HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / bisacsh. --- Künste. --- Kollektives Gedächtnis. --- Judenvernichtung. --- Völkermord. --- Rezeption. --- Darstellung. --- History / holocaust. --- History / modern / 20th century. --- Kollektives gedächtnis. --- Génocide --- Génocide dans les médias