Między Auschwitz a Algierią [przeł. Katarzyna Bojarska]
Between Auschwitz and Algeria [trans. Katarzyna Bojarska]

Summary/Abstract: Les belles lettres (1961), the first book publication of Charlotte Delbo, the former Auschwitz inmate and a member of the French resistance movement, is analysed in the context of multidirectional memory paradigm, where the memory of World War II colonisation and decolonisation meet. The article previously published in “Critical Inquiry” (Vol. 33, No. 1, Autumn 2006, pp. 158-184) became a chapter of the book Multidirectional Memory: Remembering the Holocaust in the Age of Decolonization (2009). Some key concepts include the public and the counter-public, testimony in public discursive space political responsibility of the witness in the face of some extreme forms of terror and violence as practiced by the state

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