Abstract: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
racism not only parallel one another, but their mutual incapacity to let go of
the injustice of the past also generates … Show more
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