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Memory and Complicity offers a sophisticated, nuanced, and beautifully written account of the intersecting legacies of genocide and colonialism in postwar France. In this significant and much needed intervention, Sanyal illuminates both the possibilities and dangers of transcultural trauma and memory studies. --Michael Rothberg, author of Multidirectional Memory: Remembering the Holocaust in the Age of Decolonization Memory and Complicity is a very impressive book. Sanyal is unusually well acquainted with the relevant literature (which is extensive), her arguments are clear and compelling, her writing is unfailingly lucid and accessible, and her scholarship is beyond reproach. --Thomas Trezise, Princeton University A superb example of a new critical memory studies, Memory and Complicity does not eschew the dark sides of remembering atrocity. Sanyal's exposure of complicity--using World War Two France as a telling example, but applicable beyond this one case--is neither accusatory nor guilt-inducing. Instead, the acknowledgment of complicity becomes an inspiring call to action, change and repair for the future. --Marianne Hirsch, author of The Generation of Postmemory: Writing and Visual Culture After the Holocaust

GCGBPMemory and Complicity offers a sophisticated, nuanced, and beautifully written account of the intersecting legacies of genocide and colonialism in postwar France. In this significant and much needed intervention, Sanyal illuminates both the possibilities and dangers of transcultural trauma and memory studies.GC[yen] GCoMichael Rothberg, Multidirectional Memory: Remembering the Holocaust in the Age of Decolonization Memory and Complicity offers a sophisticated, nuanced, and beautifully written account of the intersecting legacies of genocide and colonialism in postwar France. In this significant and much needed intervention, Sanyal illuminates both the possibilities and dangers of transcultural trauma and memory studies. --Michael Rothberg, author of Multidirectional Memory: Remembering the Holocaust in the Age of Decolonization Memory and Complicity is a very impressive book. Sanyal is unusually well acquainted with the relevant literature (which is extensive), her arguments are clear and compelling, her writing is unfailingly lucid and accessible, and her scholarship is beyond reproach. --Thomas Trezise, Princeton University A superb example of a new critical memory studies, Memory and Complicity does not eschew the dark sides of remembering atrocity. Sanyal's exposure of complicity--using World War Two France as a telling example, but applicable beyond this one case--is neither accusatory nor guilt-inducing. Instead, the acknowledgment of complicity becomes an inspiring call to action, change and repair for the future. --Marianne Hirsch, author of The Generation of Postmemory: Writing and Visual Culture After the Holocaust

Memory and Complicity offers a sophisticated, nuanced, and beautifully written account of the intersecting legacies of genocide and colonialism in postwar France. In this significant and much needed intervention, Sanyal illuminates both the possibilities and dangers of transcultural trauma and memory studies. --Michael Rothberg, author of Multidirectional Memory: Remembering the Holocaust in the Age of DecolonizationMemory and Complicity is a very impressive book. Sanyal is unusually well acquainted with the relevant literature (which is extensive), her arguments are clear and compelling, her writing is unfailingly lucid and accessible, and her scholarship is beyond reproach. --Thomas Trezise, Princeton University

Memory and Complicity offers a sophisticated, nuanced, and beautifully written account of the intersecting legacies of genocide and colonialism in postwar France. In this significant and much needed intervention, Sanyal illuminates both the possibilities and dangers of transcultural trauma and memory studies. --Michael Rothberg, author of Multidirectional Memory: Remembering the Holocaust in the Age of Decolonization Memory and Complicity is a very impressive book. Sanyal is unusually well-acquainted with the relevant literature (which is extensive), her arguments are clear and compelling, her writing unfailingly lucid and accessible, and her scholarship beyond reproach. --Thomas Trezise, Princeton University

A superb example of a new critical memory studies, Memory and Complicity does not eschew the dark sides of remembering atrocity. Sanyal's exposure of complicity - using World War Two France as a telling example, but applicable beyond this one case - is neither accusatory nor guilt-inducing. Instead, the acknowledgment of complicity becomes an inspiring call to action, change and repair for the future. -- -Marianne Hirsch author of The Generation of Postmemory: Writing and Visual Culture After the Holocaust Memory and Complicity is a very impressive book. Sanyal is unusually well acquainted with the relevant literature (which is extensive), her arguments are clear and compelling, her writing is unfailingly lucid and accessible, and her scholarship is beyond reproach. -- -Thomas Trezise Princeton University Memory and Complicity offers a sophisticated, nuanced, and beautifully written account of the intersecting legacies of genocide and colonialism in postwar France. In this significant and much needed intervention, Sanyal illuminates both the possibilities and dangers of transcultural trauma and memory studies. -- -Michael Rothberg Multidirectional Memory: Remembering the Holocaust in the Age of Decolonization

Memory and Complicity offers a sophisticated, nuanced, and beautifully written account of the intersecting legacies of genocide and colonialism in postwar France. In this significant and much needed intervention, Sanyal illuminates both the possibilities and dangers of transcultural trauma and memory studies. --Michael Rothberg, author of Multidirectional Memory: Remembering the Holocaust in the Age of Decolonization Memory and Complicity is a very impressive book. Sanyal is unusually well acquainted with the relevant literature (which is extensive), her arguments are clear and compelling, her writing is unfailingly lucid and accessible, and her scholarship is beyond reproach. --Thomas Trezise, Princeton University A superb example of a new critical memory studies, Memory and Complicity does not eschew the dark sides of remembering atrocity. Sanyal's exposure of complicity--using World War Two France as a telling example, but applicable beyond this one case--is neither accusatory nor guilt-inducing. Instead, the acknowledgment of complicity becomes an inspiring call to action, change and repair for the future. --Marianne Hirsch, author of The Generation of Postmemory: Writing and Visual Culture After the Holocaust

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Debarati Sanyal is Professor of French and Zaffaroni Family Chair of Undergraduate Education at the University of California, Berkeley, where she directs the Center for Interdisciplinary Critical Inquiry. She is the author of Memory and Complicity: Migrations of Holocaust Remembrance (Fordham, 2015) and The Violence of Modernity: Baudelaire, Irony and the Politics of Form (Johns Hopkins, 2006).

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