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

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 recol...

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Main Author: Hirsch, Marianne (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, ©2012.
Series:Gender and culture.
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Table of Contents:
  • The generation of postmemory
  • What's wrong with this picture? (With Leo Spitzer)
  • Marked by memory
  • Surviving images
  • Nazi photographs in post-Holocaust Art
  • Projected memory
  • Testimonial objects (with Leo Spitzer)
  • Objects of return
  • Postmemory's archival turn.