Multidirectional memory : remembering the Holocaust in the age of decolonization / Michael Rothberg

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Main Authors:Rothberg, Michael (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published:Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2009
Series:Cultural memory in the present
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Online Access:Book review (H-Net)
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Table of Contents
Introduction : theorizing multidirectional memory in a transnational age
Boomerang effects : bare life, trauma, and the colonial turn in Holocaust studies
At the limits of Eurocentrism : Hannah Arendt's The origins of totalitarianism
"Un choc en retour": Aimé Césaire's discourses on colonialism and genocide
Migrations of memory : ruins, ghettos, diasporas
W.E.B. Du Bois in Warsaw : Holocaust memory and the color line
Anachronistic aesthetics : André Schwarz-Bart and Caryl Phillips on the ruins of memory
Truth, torture, testimony : Holocaust memory during the Algerian War
The work of testimony in the age of decolonization : chronicle of a summer and the emergence of the Holocaust survivor
The counterpublic witness : Charlotte Delbo's Les belles lettres
October 17, 1961 : a site of Holocaust memory?
A tale of three ghettos : race, gender, and "universality" around 1961
Hidden children : the ethics of multigenerational memory after 1961
Epilogue : multidirectional memory in an age of occupations.