You might also like

More about Generation of Postmemory

• Book details
• Synopsis
• Trending among others

You get 82 loyalty points

Book synopsis

Can we remember other peoples 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. 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.

Book details

Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Social groups

• Full title: Generation of Postmemory
• Author: Hirsch
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320
• EAN: 9780231156530
• ISBN: 0231156537
• ID: 04458262
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Weight: 492 g
• Dimensions: 228 × 155 × 17 mm
• Date of publishing: 26. June 2012

Trending among others

---

---

---