Multidirectional Memory: Remembering the Holocaust in the Age of Decolonization

✍ Scribed by Michael Rothberg

Publisher: Stanford University Press
Tongue: English
Leaves: 405
Series: Cultural Memory in the Present
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction: Theorizing Multidirectional Memory in a Transnational Age
Part I: Boomerang Effects: Bare Life, Trauma,and The Colonial Turn in Holocaust Studies
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
Part II: Migrations of Memory: Ruins, Ghettos, Diasporas
4. W. E. B. Du Bois in Warsaw: Holocaust Memory and the Color Line
5. A Anachronistic Aesthetics: André Schwarz-Bart and Caryl Phillips on the Ruins of Memory
Part III: Truth, Torture, Testimony: Holocaust Memory During the Algerian War
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
Part IV: October 17, 1961: A Site of Holocaust Memory?
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

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