多方位記憶：非殖民化時代大屠殺回憶 英文原版 Multidirectional Memory

基本信息/Product Details

出版社 : Stanford University Press; 第 1st 版 (2009年6月15日)

語言 : 英語

平裝 : 403頁

ISBN-10 : 080476218X

ISBN-13 : 978-0804762182

商品重量 : 544 g

尺寸 : 15.24 x 2.57 x 22.86 cm

頁面參數僅供參考，具體以實物為準

書籍簡介/Book De*ion

《多方位記憶》將大屠殺研究和後殖民研究結合起來。該書採用了一種比較跨學科的方法，通過將大屠殺記憶置於意想不到的非殖民化背景中，對全球時代的大屠殺記憶進行了雙重論證。一方面，它展示了大屠殺如何在被宣佈為人類所實施的zui恐怖的行為的同時，使其他受害歷史得以闡述。另一方面，它發現了一個更令人驚訝且很少被承認的事實，即大屠殺的公共記憶的出現部分歸功於戰後的事件，而這些事件zui初似乎與大屠殺沒有什麼關係。特別是，《多方位記憶》強調了加勒比海、非洲、歐洲、美國和其他地方正在進行的非殖民化進程和民權運動是如何意外地激發了對大屠殺的記憶。羅斯伯格與知名和非知名的知識分子、作家和電影製作人進行了接觸，包括Hannah Arendt, Aimé Césaire, Charlotte Delbo, W.E.B. Du Bois, Marguerite Duras, Michael Haneke, Jean Rouch, and William Gardner Smith.

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, Aimé Césaire, Charlotte Delbo, W.E.B. Du Bois, Marguerite Duras, Michael Haneke, Jean Rouch, and William Gardner Smith.

媒體推薦/Comments

"This is the first book to take up the transnational and cross-disciplinary politics of memory in ways adequate to the difficulties and pitfalls of the topic. In its readings of theoretical and literary texts primarily from the 1950s and 1960s, it confronts the Holocaust with decolonization, successfully questioning the 'color line' separating these two discourses today. Deft in argument and subtle in its analyses, Rothberg's book provides an exciting new direction for memory studies in the humanities and in social thought. A compelling read!" 

-- Andreas Huyssen ― Columbia University

"Multidirectional Memory is a pathbreaking work of interdisciplinary scholarship that will reconfigure the fields of Holocaust Studies and post-colonial theory. Rothberg's powerful study of the relations between Holocaust memory and decolonization illuminates the 'multidirectional' orientation of collective memory through half a century of transnational cultural production in Europe, North America, the Caribbean and North Africa (with an emphasis on postwar France)." 

-- Debarati Sanyal, University of California ― Berkeley

"The book fleshes out a powerful genealogy for multidirectional memory as well as a more sustained account of how, more specifically, Holocaust memory and colonial memory come together in France around the legacy of the Algerian War." 

-- Laura Levitt

"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 ― Interventions: Journal of Postcolonial Studies

作者簡介/Author

邁克爾-羅斯伯格是伊利諾伊大學厄巴納-香檳分校的英語教授和批評與解釋理論部門的主任

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).