The Generation of postmemory : writing and visual culture after the Holocaust
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The Generation of postmemory : writing and visual culture after the Holocaust
（Gender and culture / edited by Carolyn G. Heilbrun and Nancy K. Miller）
Columbia University Press, c2012
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-289) and index
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Description
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 Hirsch builds on her influential concept of postmemory. The book's chapters, two of which were written collaboratively with the historian Leo Spitzer, engage the work of postgeneration artists and writers such as Art Spiegelman, W.G. Sebald, Eva Hoffman, Tatana Kellner, Muriel Hasbun, Anne Karpff, Lily Brett, Lorie Novak, David Levinthal, Nancy Spero and Susan Meiselas. Grappling with the ethics of empathy and identification, these artists attempt to forge a creative postmemorial aesthetic that reanimates the past without appropriating it.
In her analyses of their fractured texts, Hirsch locates the roots of the familial and affiliative practices of postmemory in feminism and other movements for social change. Using feminist critical strategies to connect past and present, words and images, and memory and gender, she brings the entangled strands of disparate traumatic histories into more intimate contact. With more than fifty illustrations, her text enables a multifaceted encounter with foundational and cutting edge theories in memory, trauma, gender, and visual culture, eliciting a new understanding of history and our place in it.
Table of Contents
Introduction I. Familial Postmemories and Beyond 1. The Generation of Postmemory 2. What's Wrong With This Picture? with Leo Spitzer 3. Marked by Memory II. Affiliation 4. Surviving Images 5. Nazi Photographs in Post-Holocaust Art 6. Projected Memory 7. Testimonial Objects with Leo Spitzer III. Connective Histories 8. Objects of Return 9. Postmemory's Archival Turn Notes Bibliography Acknowledgments Index
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