5. Anachronistic Aesthetics: André Schwarz-Bart and Caryl Phillips on the Ruins of Memory

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Illustrations xi
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. 1. Introduction: Theorizing Multidirectional Memory in a Transnational Age 1
6. Part I. Boomerang Effects: Bare Life, Trauma, and the Colonial Turn in Holocaust Studies
7. 2. At the Limits of Eurocentrism: Hannah Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism 33
8. 3. “Un Choc en Retour”: Aimé Césaire’s Discourses on Colonialism and Genocide 66
9. Part II. Migrations of Memory: Ruins, Ghettos, Diasporas
10. 4. W. E. B. Du Bois in Warsaw: Holocaust Memory and the Color Line 111
11. 5. Anachronistic Aesthetics: André Schwarz-Bart and Caryl Phillips on the Ruins of Memory 135
12. Part III. Truth, Torture, Testimony: Holocaust Memory During the Algerian War
13. 6. The Work of Testimony in the Age of Decolonization: Chronicle of a Summer and the Emergence of the Holocaust Survivor 175
14. 7. The Counterpublic Witness: Charlotte Delbo’s Les belles lettres 199
15. Part IV. October 17, 1961: A Site of Holocaust Memory?
16. 8. A Tale of Three Ghettos: Race, Gender, and “Universality” After October 17, 1961 227
17. 9. Hidden Children: The Ethics of Multigenerational Memory After 1961 267
18. Epilogue: Multidirectional Memory in an Age of Occupations 309
19. Notes 315
20. Index 365