Tortuous Time: Undoing the Past in Jean Améry and James Baldwin

This article compares the works of James Baldwin and Jean Améry, a survivor of the Jewish Holocaust. It attempts to unpack the ethical and political implications of their shared conception of the temporality of trauma. The experiences of the victim of anti-Semitism and the victim of anti-Black racis...

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Main Author: Joseph Weiss
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Manchester University Press 2022-09-01
Series:James Baldwin Review
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Online Access:https://www.manchesteropenhive.com/view/journals/jbr/8/1/article-p86.xml