The Holocaust trope : traumatic memory and melodrama in Isabel Coixet's La Vida Secreta de las Palabras (The Secret Life of Words, ...
Using the Holocaust as a transnational trope, and drawing on the theoretical debates on the representation of trauma within Film Studies, this essay will examine the ethical and political significance of traumatic memory in Isabel Coixet's La Vida Secreta de las Palabras (The Secret Life of Words, 2005), a transnational film that deals with the traumatic suffering of a female victim and survivor of ...