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Postmemory, stereotype, and the return home. Rewriting pre-existing narratives in Sofi Oksanen’s "Purge" [PDF]
, 2016 The article offers a discussion of Sofi Oksanen’s novel Purge, focusing on the book’s strategy of evoking stereotypical narratives about Eastern Europe, such as the (postcommunist) fallen woman and (Russian) return home narratives, as well as related ...
Mrozewicz, Anna Estera
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“This story is impossible to be told”. Difficulty in depicting the past in two novels by Javier Cercas [PDF]
, 2013 In two novels based on the subject of war: Soldados de Salamina (“Soldiers of Salamis”) (2001) and Velocidad de la luz (“the Speed of Light”) (2005), Javier Cercas raises the problem of recuperation of a traumatic past through literary discourse.
Potok, Magda
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Critical Literary StudiesThis article investigates Deirdre Madden’s Time Present and Time Past through the lens of Marianne Hirsch’s theory of postmemory, focusing on the role of photographs in bridging gaps between generations and constructing narratives about traumatic events.
Maryam Amirsha'bani, Shahriyar Mansouri
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Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Polonica, 2017 The article is an attempt at interpretation of two essays, which may be called „Lager” essays. These are Écorces written by G. Didi-Huberman and Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death written by O.D.
Katarzyna Kuczyńska-Koschany
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Unheimliches Mauthausen. Zu Lydia Haiders Romanen [PDF]
, 2020 Lydia Haider ist eine junge Autorin, die zwei Tendenzen der österreichischen Literatur miteinander verbindet. Sie setzt sich kritisch mit der österreichischen Provinz auseinander – wobei auch die Sprachkritik eine relevante Rolle spielt – und sie ...
Jabłkowska, Joanna
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Epigenetic Trauma and Postmemory in Marjorie Agosín’s Literary Reconstruction of Jewish Identity
MistralThis article examines the interplay of postmemory and epigenetic trauma in the literary reconstruction of Jewish identity in the oeuvre of Marjorie Agosín. Drawing on Marianne Hirsch’s concept of postmemory and recent theories of intergenerational trauma,
Ignacio López-Calvo
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“Beyond the Threshold of War, There Seemed to Be No Reality and No Past”30: Third Generation Jewish American Writers and the Inherited Memory of the Holocaust [PDF]
University of Bucharest Review. Literary and Cultural Studies Series, 2022 “Beyond the threshold of war, there seemed to be no reality and no past” (Hoffman 13). In her celebrated book After Such Knowledge: A Meditation on the Aftermath of the Holocaust (2004), Hoffman discusses the pervading presence of the Shoah in Jewish ...
Laura Gimeno-Pahissa
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Politeja, 2019 Memory and Trauma: Contemporary Interpretations of the 1992‑1995 War among the Youth of Bosnian‑Muslim For Bosnia and Herzegovina, the 1990s were a period of changes due to war.
Katarzyna Wasiak
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Quiet Voices, Faded Photographs: Remembering the Armenian Genocide in Varujan Vosganian’s ‘The Book of Whispers’ [PDF]
, 2017 Drawing on concepts such as post-genocide literature, postmemory (Marianne Hirsch), and resonance (Aleida Assmann), this paper discusses a third-generation narrative of the Armenian genocide, namely Varujan Vosganian’s novel The Book of Whispers ...
Mironescu, Andreea
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Bahasa dan Seni: Jurnal Bahasa, Sastra, Seni, dan Pengajarannya, 2020 THE DYNAMICS OF RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ISOLATION AND MEMORY TRANSMISSION IN “TEMPÊTE” NOVELLA BY J. M. G. LE CLÉZIO: A POST-MEMORY REVIEW Abstract: The concept of postmemory, introduced by Hirsch (2012), focuses on the processes through which memories ...
Nadya Annisa Noer +2 more
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