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Suleiman, Susan Rubin was born on July 18, 1939 in Budapest, Hungary. Came to the United States, 1950. Daughter of Michael N. and Lillian (Stern) Rubin.
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In this acclaimed book, renowned Harvard scholar Susan Rubin Suleiman discusses individual and collective memories of World War II, as reflected in literary memoirs, autobiographical novels, works of history and philosophy, and films. Suleiman argues that memories of World War II transcend national boundaries, due not only to the global nature of the war but also to the increasingly global presence of the Holocaust as a site of collective memory. Among the works she discusses are Jean-Paul Sartre's essays on the Occupation and Resistance in France; Marcel Ophuls's innovative documentary on the Nazi interrogator Klaus Barbie, who was tried for crimes against humanity in 1987; István Szabó’s film "Sunshine," a chronicle of Jewish identity in central Europe; literary memoirs by Jorge Semprun and Elie Wiesel; and experimental writing by child survivors of the Holocaust, Georges Perec and Raymond Federman.
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In this important book, noted Harvard scholar Susan Suleiman explores the politics as well as the aesthetics of modern and postmodern writing and art, from Dada and Surrealism to the present. Through her detailed readings of works by avant-garde writers and artists like André Breton, Georges Bataille, Roland Barthes, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Marcel Duchamp and Max Ernst, Suleiman demonstrates the central role of the female body in the male artistic imagination and the extent to which masculinist assumptions have shaped modern art and theory. She asks: What place do women artists and writers have in the avant-garde? Suleiman discusses works by Hélène Cixous, Marguerite Duras, Monique Wittig, Angela Carter, Jeanette Winterson, Leonora Carrington, Barbara Kruger, Jenny Holzer, Cindy Sherman and others, showing how feminist avant-garde art provides a powerful, often humorous or parodic critique of patriarchal ideologies. Central to Suleiman’s revisionary theory of the avant-garde is the figure of the playful, laughing mother. True to the radically irreverent spirit of the historical avant-gardes and their postmodernist successors, Suleiman’s laughing mother embodies one possible link between symbolic innovation and political and social change.
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( Can you forget the place you once called home? What doe...)
Can you forget the place you once called home? What does it take to make you recapture it? In this moving memoir, Susan Rubin Suleiman describes her returns to the city of her birth—where she speaks the language like a native but with an accent. Suleiman left Budapest in 1949 as a young child with her parents, fleeing communism; thirty-five years later, she returned with her two sons from a brief vacation and began to remember her childhood. Her earliest memories, of Nazi persecution in the final year of World War II, came back to her in fragments, as did memories of her first school years after the war of the stormy marriage between her father, a brilliant Talmudic scholar, and her mother, a cosmopolitan woman from a more secular Jewish family. In 1993, after the fall of communism and the death of her mother, Suleiman returned to Budapest for six-month stay. She recounts her ongoing quest for personal history, interweaving it with the stories of present-day Hungarians struggling to make sense of the changes in their individual and collective lives. Suleiman's search for documents relating to her childhood, the lives of her parents and their families, and the Jewish communities of Hungary and Poland takes her on a series of fascinating journeys within and outside Budapest. Emerging from this eloquent, often suspenseful diary is the portrait of an intellectual who recaptures her past and comes into contact with the vital, troubling world of contemporary Eastern Europe. Suleiman's vivid descriptions of her encounters with a proud, old city and its people in a time of historical change remind us that every life story is at once unique and part of a larger history.
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(Political ideologies often informed early twentieth-centu...)
Political ideologies often informed early twentieth-century French novels, creating a hybrid genre that is both "realist" and didactic: the roman thse. In this ground-breaking and critically acclaimed work, Susan Suleiman looks beyond the politics of novels by such authors as Malraux, Mauriac, Sartre, and Aragon, and examines their shared formal and generic features. Although the genre itself is considered antimodern, the critical and interpretive problems it raises are central to an understanding of both realist and modernist writing. "The great virtue of Suleiman's book is its ability to synthesize a range of theoretical ideas--whether formalist, structuralist or "reader-response' in the service of a clear and compelling critical argument."--Christopher Norris, The London Review of Books "This book is certainly one of the best examples of semiotic theory put to use for interpretation of literature and its relation to culture."--Thas Morgan, Genre
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Susan Suleiman sets forth in this work an exchange with contemporary writers and artists. Simone de Beauvoir, Helene Cixous, Elie Wiesel, Mary Gordon, Max Ernst, Angela Carter, and others enter through Sulieman's reading into a dialogue with each other - and with us as readers. Suleiman thus includes us in her voyage of self-discovery as she confronts the conflicts between writing and motherhood, the paradoxes of postmodernism, the place of beauty in contemporary art, and the problematic and crucial relations between individual life-story and collective history.
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Suleiman, Susan Rubin was born on July 18, 1939 in Budapest, Hungary. Came to the United States, 1950. Daughter of Michael N. and Lillian (Stern) Rubin.
Bachelor magna cum laude, Barnard College, 1960. Certified Institute Phonétique, University Paris, 1961. Master of Arts, Harvard University, 1964.
Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1969.
Teaching fellow in romance languages and literature, Harvard University, 1962-1965; associate professor romance languages and literature, Harvard University, 1981-1983; John L. Loeb associate professor humanities, Harvard University, 1983-1984; professor romance languages and literature, Harvard University, 1984-1985; professor romance and comparative literature, Harvard University, 1985-1997; C. Douglas Dillon professor comparative literature, Harvard University, since 1997; instructor French, Columbia University, 1966-1968; assistant professor French, Columbia University, 1969-1976; from assistant to associate professor French, Occidental College, 1976-1981. Visiting assistant professor department classics University of California at Los Angeles, 1976. Member of faculty county Harvard University, 1985-1988, member Executive Committee, director seminar on politics, literature and arts Center for Literature and Cultural Studies, since 1986, director Summer Institute on Approaches to Study Avant-Gardes: The 20th Century, 1987, placement advisor department comparative literature, 1987-1991, director graduate studies in French, 1989-1993, co-director Summer Institute on Future Avant-Garde in Postmodern Culture, 1989, head French section, 1991-1993, chair department romance language & literature, since 1997.
( Can you forget the place you once called home? What doe...)
(In this acclaimed book, renowned Harvard scholar Susan Ru...)
(In this important book, noted Harvard scholar Susan Sulei...)
(Political ideologies often informed early twentieth-centu...)
(To write about your contemporaries, whose work is enmeshe...)
(Susan Suleiman sets forth in this work an exchange with c...)
Member Modern Language Association (executive committee literature criticism division 1984-1988, chairman 1987 convention, nominating committee 1990-1991, executive committee 20th century French literature division 1992, executive council national election 1993-1996, radio committee 2004-2006), International Comparative Literature Association (committee literature theory 1985-1992), Camargo Foundation (academy selection committee 1992-1998), American Comparative Literature Association (advisory board national election 1983-1986, vice president 1995-1997, president 1997-1999), Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Ezra N. Suleiman, February 1966 (divorced 1985). Children: Michael, Daniel.