Multidirectional Memory: Remembering the Holocaust in the Age of Decolonization

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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 War 6. 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