Holocaust narratives
trauma, memory and identity across generations
Bände/Inhalt:
- Introduction : Holocaust traumata and their generational legacies and emanations. Generations : structural frameworks -- The dialogical nature of (collective) trauma -- Trauma theory : concepts, implications, outlooks -- Moving trauma theory into the generation of postmemory -- Living in the aftermath : forms of trauma -- Insterstices between individual and cultural trauma -- Trauma as connective force -- Structure of the book -- Narrating the inexpressible : Wiesel's Night as testimonial trendsetter. God on the gallows : doublings of faith -- Trauma in the mirror : identities in the face of trauma -- Paradigmatic accuser : connecting audiences -- Witness in search of meaning and silence -- Surviving and remembering : representing trauma in the present -- The truth of fiction in Louis Begley's Wartime lies. Narrated identities : fictionalization of self and its actual facts -- Negotiating fact and fiction in meaningful representation for the audience --^
- The creation of meaning and its passing ownership -- (R/De-)construction of narrative and real identity -- Asserting control by narrative means -- Rescuing one's memory from past traumata : Cheryl Pearl Sucher's The rescue of memory. Past and present : making a stance of one's own -- Photographs and other stories : past negatives and healing trauma -- Generational vonnections : approaching first- and second-generation trauma -- First-hand trauma in second-generation writing -- Emancipation through embedding : establishing a meaningful presence of the past -- Meaningful incorporation of past trauma into present narratives -- Encaustic memories : second-generation assertions in Rosenbaum's Second hand smoke. Traumatic impositions : connecting first- and second-generation trauma -- Encountering the ghosts : generational connections to the past -- Close contact : breaking down past and present distinctions -- Imposing trauma : between filial rage and generational forgiveness --^
- Individual and cultural authorship over trauma stories -- Damaged goods : navigating parental trauma and one's own -- Exclusion from and inclusion into parental narratives -- Remembering, letting go, and incorporating the past into the present -- Progressive and tragic narrative outlook in overcoming trauma -- Connecting worlds : Narrative networks in Horn's The world to come. Generational temporal connections -- Choosing narrative, choosing life -- Linguistic connections to translated pasts -- Storied bridges : connecting present, past, and future worlds -- Meaningful narratives : paper bridges between (past) trauma and (present) meanings -- Connecting worlds : people as stories -- Creating a future from the past -- Stories as narrative intersections between generations -- When memory fails : fiction as history in Everything Is illuminated. Narrative trajectories : limitations of fictional meaning creation -- Generational positions : midrashic engagements and circular historicity --^
- (Re-)Constructing the past : interrelations between the place and its stories -- Language and silence : connective phantasmagorias of meaning -- Workable terminologies : integrating past-tensed facts -- Fictional records : tracking meanings between past and present -- Narrative realities : permeating events and stories -- Imaginative representation : memory's narrative dependencies -- Generational catharsis in dyadic, generational encounters -- Conclusion : the future of trauma
- "Holocaust Narratives: Trauma, Memory and Identity Across Generations analyzes individual multi-generational frameworks of Holocaust trauma to answer one essential question: How do these narratives change to not only transmit the trauma of the Holocaust - and in the process add meaning to what is inherently an event that annihilates meaning - but also construct the trauma as a connector to a past that needs to be continued in the present?"--