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Shaping Losses: CULTURAL MEMORY AND THE HOLOCAUST
Epstein
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Description for Shaping Losses: CULTURAL MEMORY AND THE HOLOCAUST
Paperback. Explores how traumatic loss affects identity and how those who are shaped by loss give shape, in turn, to the empty place where something - relationships, family, culture - was and is no longer. Taking the example of the decimation of European Jewry during the Nazi era, this title confronts the problem of transforming trauma into cultural memory. Editor(s): Epstein, Julia. Num Pages: 256 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBTZ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 374.
Shaping Losses explores how traumatic loss affects identity and how those who are shaped by loss give shape, in turn, to the empty place where something--relationships, family, culture--was and is no longer. Taking the example of the decimation of European Jewry during the Nazi era, Shaping Losses confronts the problem of transforming trauma into cultural memory.
This eloquent volume examines how memoirs, films, photographs, art, and literature, as well as family conversations and personal remembrances, embody the impulse to preserve what is destroyed. The contributors -- all distinguished women scholars, most of them survivors or daughters of ... Read more
Shaping Losses explores how traumatic loss affects identity and how those who are shaped by loss give shape, in turn, to the empty place where something--relationships, family, culture--was and is no longer. Taking the example of the decimation of European Jewry during the Nazi era, Shaping Losses confronts the problem of transforming trauma into cultural memory.
This eloquent volume examines how memoirs, films, photographs, art, and literature, as well as family conversations and personal remembrances, embody the impulse to preserve what is destroyed. The contributors -- all distinguished women scholars, most of them survivors or daughters of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252069499
SKU
V9780252069499
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Reviews for Shaping Losses: CULTURAL MEMORY AND THE HOLOCAUST
"Explores cultural memory and the Holocaust through memoir, art, and literary criticism and the personal essay... All of Lefkovitz' considerations of the Holocaust's legacy in her own life are marked by ambivalence. And she suspects that the 'most powerful aspect of the legacy may be ambivalence': 'We have Hitler to thank for our presence in America.' This is the ultimate ... Read more