Ghettos, Uprootings, and Exiles: Post-Holocaust encounters between the Jew and the Colonised in Albert Memmi (original) (raw)

In this piece, I explore the writings of the Tunisian Jew Albert Memmi, placing him on a tangent with other writers like Aimé Césaire, who posed similar questions around race, nationalism, political identity, and the contradictions of modernity after the Holocaust. Like Memmi, Césaire among others, expressed the political within the autobiographical, while negotiating a complex relationship with his own community, the west, and the organised left. Above all they emerged from, and wrote in response to, a historical period joined at the hip in the aftermath of two tragedies: the Holocaust and colonialism. Through this exploration of Jewish and post-colonial representations of these contested moments in modern history, I expand on Michael Rothberg's thesis on the multidirectionality of Holocaust memory.

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