Europe’s Melancholias: Diasporas in Contention and the Unravelings of the Postwar Settlement

Rosenhaft, Eve ORCID: 0000-0002-1089-797X (2021) Europe’s Melancholias: Diasporas in Contention and the Unravelings of the Postwar Settlement. In: Entangled Memories in the Global South. Entangled Memories in the Global South . Springer International Publishing,London, pp. 45-72. ISBN 9783030576684

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57669-1_3

Abstract

<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>Rosenhaft explores some ways in which discourses of human rights, racism and antisemitism that emerged in the global North after 1945 have been appropriated, complicated and disrupted in this century’s memory conflicts. She examines Black Holocaust fictions in the light of changes in the global Black diaspora, and reflects on the recent debates on antisemitism and Holocaust memory that place diasporic actors in contention as well as on the populist trope of a “white, Christian Europe”. Following Paul Gilroy’s use of the term “postcolonial melancholia” to characterize British nostalgia for empire, she identifies analogous forms of nostalgia driving the current memory wars, and deploys the notions of “post-Holocaust” and “post-imperial” melancholias as complementary responses to the challenges posed by the (re-)emergence of a multicultural Europe.</jats:p>

Item Type:	Book Section
Uncontrolled Keywords:	16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
Depositing User:	Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited:	07 Nov 2022 17:03
Last Modified:	14 Mar 2024 22:19
DOI:	10.1007/978-3-030-57669-1_3
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URI:	https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3166025