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Postmemory and Possession [PDF]
This paper examines the phenomena of ‘postmemory’ as a mode of possession that responds to experiences of suffering. As such, the hyper-connectivity it is concerned with is not that of the digitalisation of contemporary life but is rather ‘vertical’ hyper-connectivity indicating the disturbance of past injustices that have neither been mourned nor ...
Stephen Frosh
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The urgency of the problem of how to learn from the relatively recent past in order not to repeat its devastating effects, a problem that revolves around the ethics of memory and history, has combined with an awareness that later generations of victims and perpetrators-the "post" generations-may find themselves inhibited in relation to moving forwards ...
Stephen Frosh
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Posthuman interventions in submerged histories: reconstructing history through memory in Rivers Solomon’s The Deep [PDF]
A community’s collective memory is predominantly shaped by dominant power structures that generate and contain canonical narratives. Within the post-colonial context, this social memory remains in conflict with certain ancestral or tribal memories that ...
Abhishika Dawn, G. Alan
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The Generation of Postmemory [PDF]
Postmemory describes the relationship of the second generation to powerful, often traumatic, experiences that preceded their births 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 essay elucidates the generation of postmemory and its ...
Marianne Hirsch
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In 2001, Micheline Aharonian Marcom published her novel Three Apples Fell from Heaven to imagine the Armenian genocide her family survived. Marcom's novel could aptly be described as a work of ‘postmemory,’ per Marianne Hirsch's coinage.
Lisa Gulesserian
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The second generation of those repatriated from the former colony during decolonization inherited a memory of traumatic loss that they themselves had not experienced. The violent actions of Moluccan youths during the 1970s were not anti-colonial attempts to promote liberation but can be best understood as attempts at contesting ...
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Abstrak Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menjelaskan transmisi memori peristiwa 65 dari generasi pertama ke post-generasi dalam karya sastra. Metode penelitian yang digunakan, yakni deskriptif kualitatif. Penelitian ini merupakan kajian postmemory Marianne
Metia Setianing Mulyadi +1 more
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Pomnik, który nie powstał, i ofiary, których nie było?
A NON-EXISTENT MONUMENT AND NON-EXISTENT VICTIMS? ON POLISH RIVAL POSTMEMORY The article presents a case study of a yet-to-be-realized queer monument in Warsaw, a project that originated in 2007.
Aleksandra Kumala
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In the paper, I critically discuss the commemorative exhibition “Asia Minor Hellenism: Heyday-Catastrophe-Displacement-Rebirth” (Athens, Benaki Museum, 2022–2023), examining the role of postmemory in the shaping of national identity in contemporary ...
Maria G. Moschou
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