The generation of postmemory -- What’s wrong with this picture? (With Leo Spitzer) -- Marked by memory -- Surviving images -- Nazi photographs in post-Holocaust Art -- Projected memory -- Testimonial objects (with Leo Spitzer) -- Objects of return -- Postmemory’s archival turn
Summary
Can we remember other people's memories? The Generation of Postmemory argues we can: that memories of traumatic events live on to mark the lives of those who were not there to experience them. Children of survivors and their contemporaries inherit catastrophic histories not through direct recollection but through haunting postmemories-multiply mediated images, objects, stories, behaviors, and affects passed down within the family and the culture at large. In these new and revised critical readings of the literary and visual legacies of the Holocaust and other, related sites
