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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hirsch, Marianne (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Columbia University Press, ©2012.
Colección:Gender and culture.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (viii, 305 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780231526272
023152627X