Multidirectional memory remembering the Holocaust in the age of decolonization

Creator: Michael Rothberg
Included Title: ACLS Humanities ebooks
Format: Books
Language: English
Contributors: American Council of Learned Societies
Publication: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2009
Series: Cultural memory in the present

Cultural memory in the present

ATLA Special Series

ACLS Fellows' publications
Physical Details: xvii, 379 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
ISBNs: 9780804762175, 9780804762182

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2013. Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text. ([ACLS Fellows' Publications]) ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) Mode of access: Intranet.

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" after October 17, 1961 -- Hidden children : the ethics of multigenerational memory after 1961 -- Epilogue : multidirectional memory in an age of occupations

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