Landscapes of Postmemory
Landscapes of Postmemory
Author(s): Aleksandra SzczepanSubject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Politics, Social Sciences, Literary Texts, Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Photography, Geography, Regional studies, Visual Arts, Human Geography, Sociology, Politics of History/Memory, Politics and Identity, Identity of Collectives
Published by: Instytut Badań Literackich Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Summary/Abstract: The article discusses postmemory landscapes, understood both as a spatial disposition of Eastern and Central Europe, and their cultural – especially photographic, filmic, and literary – representations. The author shows that those landscapes allow to reconsider two crucial problems in the light of memory and trauma studies: i.e. spatial dimension of remembering and the meaning of site/landscape for the experience of postmemory, as well as the reinterpretation of the archive of visual clichés related to the representation of space, which is marked by historical trauma.
Journal: Teksty Drugie
- Issue Year: 2016
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 255-278
- Page Count: 24
- Language: English
- Content File-PDF
