Multidirectional Memory Remembering the Holocaust in the Age of Decolonization

Zusatztext "This is the first book to take up the transnational and cross-disciplinary politics of memory in ways adequate to the difficulties and pitfalls of the topic. In its readings of theoretical and literary texts primarily from the 1950s and 1960s, it confronts the Holocaust with decolonization, successfully questioning the 'color line' separating these two discourses today. Deft in argument and subtle in its analyses, Rothberg's book provides an exciting new direction for memory studies in the humanities and in social thought. A compelling read!" Informationen zum Autor Michael Rothberg is Professor of English and Director of the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of Traumatic Realism: The Demands of Holocaust Representation (2000). Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Michael Rothberg
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 15.06.2009
• Subject: Non-fiction book; Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945)
• EAN: 9780804762182
• ISBN: 978-0-8047-6218-2
• Pages: 403
• Dimensions (packing): 15.3 x 23 x 2.5 cm
• Series: Cultural Memory in the Present; Cultural Memory in the Present
• Subjects: HISTORY / Holocaust; HISTORY / Jewish; HISTORY / Historiography; History - General History