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The Generation of Postmemory

Author(s) -

Marianne Hirsch

Publication year - 2008

Publication title -

poetics today

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.143

H-Index - 27

eISSN - 1527-5507

pISSN - 0333-5372

DOI - 10.1215/03335372-2007-019

Subject(s) - transgenerational epigenetics , the holocaust , holocaust survivors , space (punctuation) , photography , function (biology) , transmission (telecommunications) , genealogy , sociology , art , aesthetics , history , visual arts , computer science , philosophy , biology , evolutionary biology , theology , genetics , telecommunications , operating system , pregnancy , offspring

Postmemory describes the relationship of the second generation to powerful, often traumatic, experiences that preceded their birth but that were nevertheless transmitted to them so deeply as to seem to constitute memories in their own right. Focusing on the remembrance of the Holocaust, this paper elucidates the generation of postmemory and its reliance on photography as a primary medium of trans-generational transmission of trauma. Identifying tropes that most potently mobilize the work of postmemory, it examines the role of the family as a space of transmission and the function of gender as an idiom of remembrance.

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