Multidirectional Memory [[electronic resource] ] : Remembering the Holocaust in the Age of Decolonization

• Autore: Rothberg Michael
• Pubblicazione: Palo Alto, : Stanford University Press, 2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (405 p.)
• Disciplina: 940.53/18072; 940.5318072
• Soggetto topico: Collective memory; Collective memory in literature; Decolonization - Historiography; Decolonization -- Historiography; Decolonization in literature; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Historiography; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Historiography; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 War6. 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Altri titoli varianti: Multidirectional Memory; Cultural Memory in the Present
• Titolo autorizzato: Multidirectional memory
• ISBN: 0-8047-6218-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996248069903316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
• Serie: Cultural Memory in the Present