Multidirectional Memory: Remembering the Holocaust in the Age of Decolonization - Cultural Memory in the Present

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Holocaust memory intertwining with global decolonization.

If you're intrigued by the intricate connections between historical narratives and cultural memories, "Multidirectional Memory" offers a thought-provoking perspective. Michael Rothberg's examination of how the Holocaust intersects with civil rights and decolonization efforts could illuminate your understanding of collective memory in a modern context. It's for readers who appreciate complex interplay between past events and present identities.

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ISBN: 9780804762182
Authors: Michael Rothberg
Date of Publication: 2009-06-15
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: History, Politics, Philosophy
Related Topics: Politics, Theory, History, Theory, History
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Multidirectional Memory brings together Holocaust studies and postcolonial studies for the first time. Employing a comparative and interdisciplinary approach, the book makes a twofold argument about Holocaust memory in a global age by situating it in the unexpected context of decolonization. On the one hand, it demonstrates how the Holocaust has enabled the articulation of other histories of victimization at the same time that it has been declared "unique" among human-perpetrated horrors. On the other, it uncovers the more surprising and seldom acknowledged fact that public memory of the Holocaust emerged in part thanks to postwar events that seem at first to have little to do with it. In particular, Multidirectional Memory highlights how ongoing processes of decolonization and movements for civil rights in the Caribbean, Africa, Europe, the United States, and elsewhere unexpectedly galvanized memory of the Holocaust. Rothberg engages with both well-known and non-canonical intellectuals, writers, and filmmakers, including Hannah Arendt, Aimé Césaire, Charlotte Delbo, W.E.B. Du Bois, Marguerite Duras, Michael Haneke, Jean Rouch, and William Gardner Smith.
 

Holocaust memory intertwining with global decolonization.

If you're intrigued by the intricate connections between historical narratives and cultural memories, "Multidirectional Memory" offers a thought-provoking perspective. Michael Rothberg's examination of how the Holocaust intersects with civil rights and decolonization efforts could illuminate your understanding of collective memory in a modern context. It's for readers who appreciate complex interplay between past events and present identities.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.