Post-memory generation. Literature and visual culture after the Holocaust (fragments) Cover Image
  • Price 4.50 €

Pokolenie postpamięci. Piśmiennictwo i kultura wizualna po Zagładzie (fragmenty)
Post-memory generation. Literature and visual culture after the Holocaust (fragments)

Author(s): Marianne Hirsch
Contributor(s): Marcin Rychter (Translator)
Subject(s): Cultural history, Studies of Literature, German Literature, Pre-WW I & WW I (1900 -1919), Interwar Period (1920 - 1939), WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Post-War period (1950 - 1989), Transformation Period (1990 - 2010)
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Holocaust; trauma; postmemory; Marianne Hirsch
Summary/Abstract: The book presents various aspects of literary representations of post-Holocaust trauma in texts of Polish and German literature. The phenomena of transgenerational memory transmission or – as Marianne Hirsh puts it – "postmemory" are an important element of the author’s reflections.

  • Page Range: 16-65
  • Page Count: 50
  • Publication Year: 2020
  • Language: Polish, German
Toggle Accessibility Mode