'To remember too much is indeed a form of madness': Caryl Phillips's the nature of blood and the modalities of European racism.

Discusses the fiction novel "The Nature of Blood," by Caryl Phillips, in which he turns to an examination of European identity and the place of blacks and Jews in Europe. Three narratives that connect historical anti-Semitism, William Shakespeare's tragedy "Othello," and the Holocaust; Readers are forced to confront racial terror and its residues.