...permeate and have an impact upon their lives. They have what Marianne Hirsch calls a "postmemory," "distinguished from memory by generational distance...from history by deep personal connection" (1997, 22). Their own stories are stories of absence. No longer eye-witnesses themselves, they can only witness...

...'prememoire', in the light of Modiano's claim that 'ma memoire precedait ma naissance' (LF, 96). For Hirsch, 'postmemory is distinguished from memory by generational...distance and from history by deep personal connection', and 'its connection to its object or source is mediated not through recollection but through an imaginative...

...geprägt, wobei sie betont, dass ,,[p]ost-memory [...] has certainly not taken us beyond memory, but is distinguished from memory by generational distance and from history by deep personal connection."67 Postmemory bezeichnet eine über die Generationen weitergereichte und medial umgeformte...

...suggested the neologism "postmemory" to identify the starting point of such authors as Perec and Raczymow. Postmemory is "distinguished from memory by generational...distance and from history by deep personal connection," and its "connection to its object or source is mediated not through recollection but through an imaginative...

...to other examples of younger generations dominated by the traumatic memories of older generations: 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...

...what Marianne Hirsch has called postmemory, a second-hand, delayed, and indirect form of memory that "is distinguished from memory by generational distance and from history by deep personal connection" (Family Frames 8).1 As these children were exposed to the remnants of this lost life and the trauma...

...narrative research: post-memory and countermemory. 1. Post-memory Hirsch (1997) distinguished 'post-memory from memory by generational distance and from history by deep personal connection'. Postmemory identifies the experience of 'those who grow up dominated by narratives that preceded their...

...experiences, and much of what we understand to be "the" memory of the Holocaust is actually post-memory: "Postmemory is distinguished from memory by generational...distance and from history by deep personal connection" (Hirsch 1997:22). Thus the post-memory of the second or third generation differs considerably from...

...of the Algerian war, as we have seen), an example of what Marianne Hirsch calls 'postmemory', which 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...