Michael Rothberg

The Implicated Subject

Beyond Victims and Perpetrators

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Arguing that the familiar categories of victim, perpetrator, and bystander do not adequately account for our involvement in historical violence and contemporary inequality, this book introduces a new theory of political responsibility through the figure of the implicated subject.

Produktdetails

• Cultural Memory in the Present
• Verlag: Stanford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. August 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 149mm x 227mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 424g
• ISBN-13: 9781503609594
• ISBN-10: 1503609596
• Artikelnr.: 53540942

Autorenporträt

Michael Rothberg is Professor of English and Comparative Literature and 1939 Society Samuel Goetz Chair in Holocaust Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. From Victims and Perpetrators to Implicated Subjects
1. The Transmission Belt of Domination: Theorizing the Implicated Subject
2. On (Not) Being a Descendant: Implicated Subjects and the Legacies of
Slavery
3. Progress, Progression, Procession: William Kentridge's Implicated
Aesthetic
4. From Gaza to Warsaw: Multidirectional Memory and the Perpetuator
5. Under the Sign of Suitcases: The Holocaust Internationalism of Marceline
Loridan-Ivens
6. "Germany is in Kurdistan": Hito Steyerl's Images of Implication
7. Conclusion: Transfiguring Implication