The Generation of Postmemory: Writing and Visual Culture After the Holocaust

by Marianne Hirsch

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231156537
• ISBN13: 9780231156530
• Release Date: June 2012
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"