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Author:

Rothberg, Michael.

Title:

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

Publisher:

Stanford University Press,

Copyright Date:

2009

Description:

xvii, 379 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

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.

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.

Series:

Cultural memory in the present

ISBN:

080476218X (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780804762182 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0804762171 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780804762175 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)258330957

LCCN:

2008041759

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)