Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : theorizing multidirectional memory in a transnational age -- Boomerang effects : bare life, trauma, and the colonial turn in Holocaust studies -- At the limits of Eurocentrism : Hannah Arendt's T he origins of totalitarianism -- "Un choc en retour": Aimé Césaire's discourses on colonialism and genocide -- Migrations of memory : ruins, ghettos, diasporas -- W.E.B. Du Bois in Warsaw : Holocaust memory and the color line -- Anachronistic aesthetics : André Schwarz-Bart and Ca ryl Phillips on the ruins of memory -- Truth, torture, testimony : Holo caust memory during the Algerian War -- The work of testimony in the ag e of decolonization : Chronicle of a summer and the emergence of the Ho locaust survivor -- The counterpublic witness : Charlotte Delbo's Les b elles lettres -- October 17, 1961 : a site of Holocaust memory? -- A ta le of three ghettos : race, gender, and "universality" after October 17 , 1961 -- Hidden children : the ethics of multigenerational memory afte r 1961 -- Epilogue : multidirectional memory in an age of occupations.

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