« Un écrivain africain aux prises avec la Shoah ». Mémoires afro-juives dans La plus secrète Mémoire des hommes

What is it about?

This paper discusses how in his widely acclaimed novel La plus secrète Mémoire des hommes, Mohamed Mbougar Sarr proposes a new way of writing fiction about the Holocaust. Sarr relates Jewish and African experiences to one another, but also interweaves these with a focus on the perpetrators of the Nazi atrocities. In doing so, he offers a new take on memory and diasporic identities, but also on the place of the book in the modern world, and the relation between authors and readers.

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Why is it important?

unique focus on African perspectives on the Holocaust