Multidirectional memory
Subtitle: remembering the Holocaust in the age of decolonization
By: Michael Rothberg.
Series: Cultural memory in the present
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780804762175; 9780804762182
Subjects: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Historiography; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature; Decolonization -- Historiography; Decolonization in literature; Collective memory; Collective memory in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : theorizing multidirectional memory in a transnational age; title: Boomerang effects : bare life, trauma, and the colonial turn in Holocaust studies; title: At the limits of Eurocentrism : Hannah Arendt's The origins of totalitarianism; title: "Un choc en retour": Aimé Césaire's discourses on colonialism and genocide; title: Migrations of memory : ruins, ghettos, diasporas; title: W.E.B. Du Bois in Warsaw : Holocaust memory and the color line; title: Anachronistic aesthetics : André Schwarz-Bart and Caryl Phillips on the ruins of memory; title: Truth, torture, testimony : Holocaust memory during the Algerian War; title: The work of testimony in the age of decolonization : chronicle of a summer and the emergence of the Holocaust survivor; title: The counterpublic witness : Charlotte Delbo's Les belles lettres; title: October 17, 1961 : a site of Holocaust memory?; title: A tale of three ghettos : race, gender, and "universality" around 1961; title: Hidden children : the ethics of multigenerational memory after 1961; title: Epilogue : multidirectional memory in an age of occupations.