Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Hirsch, Marianne

Titel

The generation of postmemory : writing and visual culture after the Holocaust

Ist Teil von

• Gender and culture

Ort / Verlag

New York : Columbia University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

[2012]

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Can we remember other people's memories? The Generation of Postmemory argues we can: that memories of traumatic events live on to mark the lives of those who were not there to experience them. Children of survivors and their contemporaries inherit catastrophic histories not through direct recollection but through haunting postmemories-multiply mediated images, objects, stories, behaviors, and affects passed down within the family and the culture at large.In these new and revised critical readings of the literary and visual legacies of the Holocaust and other, related sites of memory, Marianne