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12%OFFMarianne Hirsch - The Generation of Postmemory: Writing and Visual Culture After the Holocaust - 9780231156530 - V9780231156530
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The Generation of Postmemory: Writing and Visual Culture After the Holocaust

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Description for The Generation of Postmemory: Writing and Visual Culture After the Holocaust paperback. Series: Gender and Culture Series. Num Pages: 320 pages, 57 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC; JFSJ1; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 151 x 15. Weight in Grams: 444. Writing and Visual Culture After the Holocaust. Series: Gender and Culture Series. 320 pages, 57 black & white illustrations. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: JFC; JFSJ1; JFSR1. Dimension: 225 x 151 x 15. Weight: 426.
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 ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Columbia University Press
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Series
Gender and Culture Series
Condition
New
Weight
422g
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231156530
SKU
V9780231156530
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About Marianne Hirsch
Marianne Hirsch is a professor of comparative literature and gender studies at Columbia University. Her most recent books are, with Leo Spitzer, Ghosts of Home: The Afterlife of Czernowitz in Jewish Memory and, with Nancy K. Miller, Rites of Return: Diaspora Poetics and the Politics of Memory. Two of this book's chapters were written with Leo Spitzer, who is also ... Read more

Reviews for The Generation of Postmemory: Writing and Visual Culture After the Holocaust
Marianne Hirsch's writings provide us with a varied and complex vocabulary for thinking and writing about the long intergenerational legacy of the Holocaust. Her supple writing wrestles with ghosts, images, shadows, survival, loss and all that we project onto the empty canvas of the aftermath. Moving, urgent, and necessary, this book opens up new ways of thinking about family, relationality, ... Read more

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