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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"postmemory"”.
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After "Postmemory": Coping with Holocaust Remembrance in Postmodern Hebrew Literature
… known to scholars and writers as “postmemory” – a structural framework of Holocaust remembrance applied to the second generation. Of special significance is the interlacing of the modality of coping with Holocaust remembrance with postmodern thinking. Foremost in this alignment with …
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Postmemory and Gender in Contemporary Spain: Intergenerational Dialogues on the Spanish Civil War
My dissertation examines the connections between postmemory and gender in contemporary novels and films on the Spanish Civil War: Soldados de Salamina (2001; 2003), La mitad del alma (2004); El lápiz del carpintero (1999); and Death in El Valle/La muerte en El Valle (1996). Each of these texts …
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Memory and postmemory in the writing of North American writers of Lithuanian descent /
… and their descendants. All five embarked on postmemory rite of return journeys to Lithuania after Lituania’s independence from the Soviet Union, seeking answers about family narratives. These memoirs function both as memory and postmemory narratives. In each of the memoirs, the writers …
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The Translation From Memory to Postmemory: The Mother-Daughter Dialogue in Post-Holocaust Literature
… and daughters in all of the texts shows that postmemory emerges as a translation of the mother's original memory."
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Documents et Cheminements: tracing the postmemory of the second world war and the Algerian war of independence
… Marianne Hirsch’s discussions of what she calls “postmemory.” However, while postmemory for Hirsch focuses on the transmission of the memories of an event from first to subsequent generations who have not lived the event directly, I use my first chapter to highlight – through the works of Leïla …
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Atmintis ir postatmintis Šiaurės Amerikos lietuvių kilmės rašytojų literatūroje /
… and their descendants. All five embarked on postmemory rite of return journeys to Lithuania after Lituania’s independence from the Soviet Union, seeking answers about family narratives. These memoirs function both as memory and postmemory narratives. In each of the memoirs, the writers …
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The difficulty in forging a bond: the inner workings of postmemory within family relationships in Monika Maron's Pawels Briefe and Uwe Timm's Am Beispiel Meines Bruders
… form” in conjunction with Marianne Hirsch’s postmemory framework, I argue that the extent to which the historical positioning and the interaction with photographs and diary entries is similar in these post-1989 texts provides insight into the overlaps of Jewish and non-Jewish German …
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Problemáticas del espacio en la narrativa hispanoamericana contemporánea (1990-2010)
… and Los rubios with respect to the theme of postmemory in the periods following the internal conflict in Peru and the military dictatorship in Argentina. The “space of postmemory” that arises in both films relates to the interplay between the absence/presence of the bodies of the parents – …
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Unintelligible: A Memoir of Unassumable Inheritance
… a predicament that might be called ‘perpetrator postmemory’ or ‘postguilt’. The work explores how the conflicted, partial and tentative structures of postmemory , expressed in the creative work through techniques of fragmentation, intertextuality and unreliable, multi-voiced narration, can lend …
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In Post Memoriam: An Exploration of Family and Grieving
… grief. The author wrestles with the concept of “postmemory” as theorized by Marianne Hirsch and questions what it means to have the experiences of someone else passed down through generations. The collection includes essays on the connection between eggs and ovarian cancer, the exploration of …
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Gedächtnis und Trauma im zeitgenössischen österreichischen Familienroman
… Studies as well as on concepts of trauma and postmemory, both of which have been highly influenced by psychoanalysis. I consider the family novel that has flourished since the end of the 1990s to be a variation of the traditional family novel that was particularly common in the 19th century …
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Activism in transition: generations and political subjectivation in the Chilean post-dictatorship student movement.
… their collective identity through a process of postmemory, allowing them to produce a coherent and proactive political subjectivation. Regarding class, the 1997 student movement memories are shaped by class distinctions, however they do not translate into class grievances. In the case of 2011, …
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Not the Whole Story: Narrative Responses to Contemporary Globalization
… and the interactions of globalization and postmemory, followed by a brief conclusion on classroom pedagogy.</p>
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Memory on the move: transnational travel in post-1989 German literature
… family memory. Using Marianne Hirsch's notion of postmemory, I argue in this dissertation that second-generation authors employ modes of travel in their post-1989 works in order to negotiate critical empathy to parents' traumatic pasts and revisit intergenerational conflicts of the Cold War …
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Simulacra : constructing narrative in the studio tableau
… and the proverbs: an oral history, or a ·postmemory'. These inherited tales are told through the snapshots that did survive, as they are in all families who take pictures. I have retold and reconstructed my own narratives, because this is the nature of the family romance for everyone - it …
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David Fram: Lithuanian Yiddish Poet of the South African Diaspora and Illuminating Love
… to Fram’s poetry, as well as to the notion of postmemory. Indicating the antecedents of Illuminating Love, the thesis discusses aspects of realism and postmodernism, genre and mixed genre, as well as development of voice, point of view and character in my novel. In conclusion, suggestions are …
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Inherited memories : performing the archive
… which Marianne Hirsch’s psychodynamic theory of ‘postmemory’ is explored through the phrase ‘Children of District Six’. It traces the role and influence of ex-residents in shaping the politics and poetics of the District Six Museum and argues that orality and performance are singularly sympathetic …
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“We Don’t Hear All The Stories”: East Timorese Youth And Education About The Indonesian Occupation
… formal education is limited as a mechanism of postmemory construction in comparison to informal education, with youth drawing largely on family and Centro Nacional Chega! as sources of their postmemories of this history. However, the East Timorese youth who participated in the study are also …
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The Journey Back: Revisiting Childhood Trauma
… such as theory about testimonial objects, postmemory and traumatic realism. I emphasize the role of the empathic witness as well as literary devices and structures (such as metaphors, homonyms and intertextuality) that are part of this process. </p>
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Memory, Cinema and Deathscapes: Re-membering the Holocaust in Poland
… moment: a reckoning with the Holocaust in and as postmemory. This PhD takes this critical juncture as its impetus, exploring how popular media haunts emerging postmemorial Holocaust memory cultures in Kraków, Poland. Poland is central to the Holocaust and its memory – historically, spatially and …
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