| Marianne Hirsch - Family & Relationships - 1997 - 326 pages
...imply that we are beyond memory and therefore perhaps, as Nora fears, purely in history. In my reading, postmemory is distinguished from memory by generational...distance and from history by deep personal connection. Postmemory is a powerful and very particular form of memory precisely because its connection to its... | |
| James Berger - History - 1999 - 328 pages
...Hirsch, is the memory of someone else's memories, of the other's stories, and of physical memorabilia. It is "distinguished from memory by generational distance and from history by deep personal connection" (8). For Hirsch, the photograph is the most representative object of post-memory, as, in my thinking,... | |
| Michael Alan Signer - History - 2000 - 486 pages
...Hirsch, I would not suggest that post-memory takes us beyond memory, or displaces it in any way, but is "distinguished from memory by generational distance and from history by deep personal connection. Post-memory should reflect back on memory, revealing it as equally constructed, equally mediated by... | |
| Roger I. Simon, Sharon Rosenberg, Claudia Eppert - Education - 2000 - 272 pages
...discussing in the works of Steinfeld and Rosenbaum. For Hirsch, post-memory is not beyond memory, "but is distinguished from memory by generational distance and from history by deep personal connection" (18). Hirsch provides us a way to nuance our understanding of deep and common memory. Maus is predominantly... | |
| Sidonie Smith, Julia Watson - Art - 2002 - 500 pages
...performance acts in a way similar to those in the photographs from Hirsch's family album. Hirsch continues: Postmemory is distinguished from memory by generational...distance and from history by deep personal connection. Postmemory is a powerful and very particular form of memory precisely because its connection to its... | |
| Hamida Bosmajian - History - 2002 - 308 pages
..."post-memory" which she relates to Artie Spiegelman's listening to his father's Holocaust experience in Maus. Post-memory is distinguished from memory "by generational...distance and from history by deep personal connection. Post-memory should reflect back on memory, revealing it as equally constructed, equally mediated by... | |
| Emma Wilson - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 216 pages
...Manuela's role as actress, form part of the postmemory Esteban inherits. Marianne Hirsch specifies that 'postmemory is distinguished from memory by generational...from history by deep personal connection' (1997: 22). Hirsch uses the notion in relation to the memory heritage of the children of Holocaust survivors and... | |
| Justus Liebig-Universität Giessen - History - 2003 - 328 pages
...postmemory, das sich durch eine ambivalente Struktur von familialer Nähe und Distanz auszeichnet: „postmemory is distinguished from memory by generational distance and from history by deep personal connection."35 Zudem belegt der dritte Teil von 34 Victor Burgin: The End of Art Theory. Criticism... | |
| Gary Weissman - History - 2004 - 290 pages
...acknowledge this when she distinguishes between survivor memory and second-generation postmemory, stating that "postmemory is distinguished from memory by generational...distance and from history by deep personal connection" (FF 22). At the same time, however, this distinction is undermined by the notion that the difference... | |
| Ruth-Ellen Boetcher Joeres, Marjorie Gelus - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 278 pages
...that the term "survivor" is increasingly shifting and malleable). According to Hirsch: [PJostmemory is distinguished from memory by generational distance and from history by deep personal connection. Postmemory is a powerful and very particular form of memory precisely because its connection to its... | |
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