The Generation of Postmemory
Writing and Visual Culture After the Holocaust
1st Edition
Published on 29. April 2025
320 pages
978-0-231-52627-2 (ISBN)
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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 the author of Hotel Bolivia: The Culture of Memory in a Refuge from Nazism and Lives in Between: Assimilation and Marginality in Austria, Brazil, and West Africa, 1780-1945.
Content
Introduction
I. Familial Postmemories and Beyond
1. The Generation of Postmemory
2. What's Wrong With This Picture? with Leo Spitzer
3. Marked by Memory
II. Affiliation
4. Surviving Images
5. Nazi Photographs in Post-Holocaust Art
6. Projected Memory
7. Testimonial Objects with Leo Spitzer
III. Connective Histories
8. Objects of Return
9. Postmemory's Archival Turn
Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index
I. Familial Postmemories and Beyond
1. The Generation of Postmemory
2. What's Wrong With This Picture? with Leo Spitzer
3. Marked by Memory
II. Affiliation
4. Surviving Images
5. Nazi Photographs in Post-Holocaust Art
6. Projected Memory
7. Testimonial Objects with Leo Spitzer
III. Connective Histories
8. Objects of Return
9. Postmemory's Archival Turn
Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index
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