Multidirectional Memory: Remembering the Holocaust in the Age of Decolonization
Multidirectional Memory: Remembering the Holocaust in the Age of Decolonization
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多向记忆：记住非殖民化时代的大屠杀
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2009
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Michael Rothberg
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Michael Rothberg
多方向记忆首次将大屠杀研究和后殖民研究结合在一起。采用比较和跨学科的方法，这本书提出了一个双重的论点，在全球化时代的大屠杀记忆，将其置于非殖民化的意想不到的背景下。一方面，它表明，大屠杀如何使人们能够阐述其他受害历史，同时又被宣布为人类犯下的恐怖行为中的“独特”事件。另一方面，它揭示了一个更令人惊讶且很少被承认的事实，即公众对大屠杀的记忆在一定程度上要归功于战后的事件，这些事件起初似乎与大屠杀无关，特别是，多方向记忆强调了加勒比海、非洲、欧洲、美国和其他地方正在进行的非殖民化进程和民权运动如何意外地激发了对大屠杀的记忆。Rothberg与知名和非经典的知识分子，作家和电影制片人，包括Hannah Arendt，Aime Cesaire，夏洛特Delbo，W.E.B.杜波依斯，玛格丽特杜拉斯，迈克尔哈内克，让鲁什，和威廉加德纳史密斯。
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, Aime Cesaire, Charlotte Delbo, W.E.B. Du Bois, Marguerite Duras, Michael Haneke, Jean Rouch, and William Gardner Smith.