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"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.
When it comes to historical violence and contemporary inequality,
none of us are completely innocent. We may not be direct agents of
harm, but we may still contribute to, inhabit, or benefit from
regimes of domination that we neither set up nor control. Arguing
that the familiar categories of victim, perpetrator, and bystander
do not adequately account for our connection to injustices past and
present, Michael Rothberg offers a new theory of political
responsibility through the figure of the implicated subject. The
Implicated Subject builds on the comparative, transnational
framework of Rothberg's influential work on memory to engage in
reflection and analysis of cultural texts, archives, and activist
movements from such contested zones as transitional South Africa,
contemporary Israel/Palestine, post-Holocaust Europe, and a
transatlantic realm marked by the afterlives of slavery. As these
diverse sites of inquiry indicate, the processes and histories
illuminated by implicated subjectivity are legion in our
interconnected world. An array of globally prominent artists,
writers, and thinkers—from William Kentridge, Hito Steyerl, and
Jamaica Kincaid, to Hannah Arendt, Primo Levi, Judith Butler, and
the Combahee River Collective—speak to this interconnection and
show how confronting our own implication in difficult histories can
lead to new forms of internationalism and long-distance solidarity.
"Extensive text, beautifully-written and well-researched, this book
leads us through many historical and geographical adventures and
towards a plethora of full-colour plates...These pages ground us by
sharing a complex culture expressed through an object of practical
simplicity." —Ptolemy Mann, Selvedge The Michael and Amy
Rothberg Collection of knotted-pile tribal and nomadic bags and
other rare small format pile weavings, among them many pieces made
for women's dowries and other ceremonial functions, is recognised
as the best of its kind anywhere in the world. The collection has
been carefully and thoughtfully assembled over the past four
decades. Michael Rothberg's collections are above all distinguished
by the collector's acutely sensitive and perceptive eye for the
best museum-quality material available on the international market.
Specialists in the field and other collectors and tribal weaving
enthusiasts have awaited the publication of this part of the
Rothberg Collection for many years, ever since a selection of the
material was shown at Sotheby's in Los Angeles in a feature
exhibition during the American Conference on Oriental Rugs in
January 1996. The scope of the collection includes antique pile
bags, from the Transcaucasus region, as well as from the Shahsavan,
Kurdish, Varamin region, Qashqa'i, Khamseh, Luri, Bakhtiari, Afshar
and Baluch tribes of Iran.
"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.
When it comes to historical violence and contemporary inequality,
none of us are completely innocent. We may not be direct agents of
harm, but we may still contribute to, inhabit, or benefit from
regimes of domination that we neither set up nor control. Arguing
that the familiar categories of victim, perpetrator, and bystander
do not adequately account for our connection to injustices past and
present, Michael Rothberg offers a new theory of political
responsibility through the figure of the implicated subject. The
Implicated Subject builds on the comparative, transnational
framework of Rothberg's influential work on memory to engage in
reflection and analysis of cultural texts, archives, and activist
movements from such contested zones as transitional South Africa,
contemporary Israel/Palestine, post-Holocaust Europe, and a
transatlantic realm marked by the afterlives of slavery. As these
diverse sites of inquiry indicate, the processes and histories
illuminated by implicated subjectivity are legion in our
interconnected world. An array of globally prominent artists,
writers, and thinkers—from William Kentridge, Hito Steyerl, and
Jamaica Kincaid, to Hannah Arendt, Primo Levi, Judith Butler, and
the Combahee River Collective—speak to this interconnection and
show how confronting our own implication in difficult histories can
lead to new forms of internationalism and long-distance solidarity.
After Representation? explores one of the major issues in Holocaust
studiesùthe intersection of memory and ethics in artistic
expression, particularly within literature.As experts in the study
of literature and culture, the scholars in this collection examine
the shifting cultural contexts for Holocaust representation and
reveal how writersùwhether they write as witnesses to the
Holocaust or at an imaginative distance from the Nazi
genocideùarticulate the shadowy borderline between fact and
fiction, between event and expression, and between the condition of
life endured in atrocity and the hope of a meaningful existence.
What imaginative literature brings to the study of the Holocaust is
an ability to test the limits of language and its conventions.
After Representation? moves beyond the suspicion of representation
and explores the changing meaning of the Holocaust for different
generations, audiences, and contexts.
The first anthology to address the relationship between the events
of the Nazi genocide and the intellectual concerns of contemporary
literary and cultural theory in one substantial and indispensable
volume. This agenda-setting reader brings together both classic and
new theoretical writings. Wide in its thematic scope, it covers
such vital questions as: * Authenticity and experience * Memory and
trauma * Historiography and the philosophy of history * Fascism and
Nazi antisemitism * Representation and identity formation * Race,
gender and genocide * The implications of the Holocaust for
theories of the unconscious, ethics, politics and aesthetics The
readings, which are fully contextualised by a general introduction,
section introductions and bibliographical notes, represent the work
of many influential writers and theorists, including Primo Levi,
Giorgio Agamben, Hannah Arendt, Cathy Caruth, Saul Friedlander,
Emmanuel Levinas, Jean-Francois Lyotard, Theodor Adorno, Zygmunt
Bauman, Paul Gilroy, Jacques Derrida, Hayden White and Shoshana
Felman.
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