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Genres of Identification: Holocaust Testimony and Postcolonial Witness
- Author(s):
- Louise Bethlehem (see profile)
- Date:
- 2015
- Group(s):
- CLCS Global Jewish, TC Memory Studies, TC Postcolonial Studies, TC Race and Ethnicity Studies, TM Literary and Cultural Theory
- Subject(s):
- Culture--Study and teaching, Europe, History, Literature and history, Jews--Study and teaching
- Item Type:
- Book chapter
- Tag(s):
- Holocaust, memory, postcolonial, Cultural studies, European history, History and literature, Jewish studies, Postcolonial literature
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6489J
- Abstract:
- This chapter explores the strange intimacies of dis/avowal that obtain between Holocaust studies and postcolonial theory, with particular reference to writing by Aimé Césaire and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. For all that the Jewish body remains, by and large, unmourned in the canonical texts of postcolonial theory, the Holocaust has, I seek to argue, made an engagement with the ascendancy of witness compelling for postcolonialism precisely because it, too, comes after; it, too, inhabits the traumatic belatedness of catastrophe
- Metadata:
- xml
- Published as:
- Book chapter Show details
- Publisher:
- Berghahn Books
- Pub. Date:
- 2015
- Book Title:
- Marking Evil: Holocaust Memory in the Global Age
- Author/Editor:
- Amos Goldberg and Haim Hazan
- Chapter:
- 9
- Page Range:
- 171 - 192
- ISBN:
- 978-1-78238-619-3
- Status:
- Published
- License:
- All Rights Reserved
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