×


 x 

Shopping cart
10%OFFMichael Rothberg - Multidirectional Memory: Remembering the Holocaust in the Age of Decolonization - 9780804762182 - V9780804762182
Stock image for illustration purposes only - book cover, edition or condition may vary.

Multidirectional Memory: Remembering the Holocaust in the Age of Decolonization

€ 32.99
€ 29.60
You save € 3.39!
FREE Delivery in Ireland
Description for Multidirectional Memory: Remembering the Holocaust in the Age of Decolonization Paperback. 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. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 408 pages, 10 illustrations. BIC Classification: HBTZ1. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 153 x 230 x 22. Weight in Grams: 562.

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 ... Read more

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.

Show Less

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
Series
Cultural Memory in the Present
Number of Pages
408
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804762182
SKU
V9780804762182
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50

About Michael Rothberg
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).

Reviews for Multidirectional Memory: Remembering the Holocaust in the Age of Decolonization
"Rothberg's study is published in the prestigious 'Cultural Memory in the Present' series, and will undoubtedly have a lasting impact on memory studies and related fields . . . [I]t is to be hoped that Multidirectional Memory will inspire further recuperation of 'forgotten' works, and accompanying reassessments of the political entanglements of writers positions (and positionings)."
Anne Whitehead
... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Multidirectional Memory: Remembering the Holocaust in the Age of Decolonization


Subscribe to our newsletter

News on special offers, signed editions & more!