Drawing on a wide range of texts, Michael Rothberg puts forth an overarching framework for understanding representations of the Holocaust.

Multidirectional Memory brings together Holocaust studies and postcolonial studies for the first time to put forward a new theory of cultural memory and uncover an unacknowledged tradition of exchange between the legacies of genocide and ...

.While drawing on a global range of histories and texts, the book never loses focus on the contemporary moment.” —Robert Eaglestone, Royal Holloway, University of London “Offer[s] a fresh vocabulary to confront our personal and ...

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 ...

This retrospective volume deals with the extraordinary breadth of Lyotard's thought and his wide-ranging impact on critical thinking in the late twentieth century." --Book Jacket.

Michael Rothberg traces a tradition of remembrance culture from the post-war period to the 21st century, which is characterized by mutual references between colonialism, slavery, racism and National Socialism, Holocaust, and anti-Semitism.

Mémoire multidirectionnelle constitue un tournant à la fois dans le travail de Michael Rothberg et dans la façon de concevoir les mémoires plurielles : en dépit des instrumentalisations politiques dont celles-ci peuvent faire l'objet ...