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Multidirectional memory : remembering the Holocaust in the age of decolonization / Michael Rothberg.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rothberg, Michael.
- Series:
- Cultural memory in the present.
- Cultural memory in the present
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Historiography.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature.
- Decolonization--Historiography.
- Decolonization.
- Decolonization in literature.
- Collective memory.
- Collective memory in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (405 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Multidirectional Memory brings together Holocaust studies and postcolonial studies for the first time to put forward a new theory of cultural memory and uncover an unacknowledged tradition of exchange between the legacies of genocide and colonialism.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Introduction: Theorizing Multidirectional Memory in a Transnational Age
- 2. At the Limits of Eurocentrism: Hannah Arendt's The Origins of Totalitarianism
- 3. "Un Choc en Retour": Aimé Césaire's Discourses on Colonialism and Genocide
- 4. W. E. B. Du Bois in Warsaw: Holocaust Memory and the Color Line
- 5. Anachronistic Aesthetics: André Schwarz-Bart and Caryl Phillips on the Ruins of Memory
- 6. The Work of Testimony in the Age of Decolonization: Chronicle of a Summer and the Emergence of the Holocaust Survivor
- 7. The Counterpublic Witness: Charlotte Delbo's Les belles lettres
- 8. A Tale of Three Ghettos: Race, Gender, and "Universality" After October 17, 1961
- 9. Hidden Children: The Ethics of Multigenerational Memory After 1961
- Epilogue: Multidirectional Memory in an Age of Occupations
- Notes
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 15. Sep 2020)
- ISBN:
- 9780804783330
- 0804783330
- OCLC:
- 763158221
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