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Multidirectional Memory: Remembering the Holocaust in the Age of Decolonization

Multidirectional Memory: Remembering the Holocaust in the Age of Decolonization

Rothberg, Michael

Paperback

Series: Cultural Memory in the Present

General World HistoryHistoriographyHolocaust

ISBN10: 080476218X
ISBN13: 9780804762182
Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr
Published: Jun 15 2009
Pages: 408
Weight: 1.20
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

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.

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