Whose trauma is it? Identification and secondary witnessing in the age of postmemory
TitleWhose trauma is it? Identification and secondary witnessing in the age of postmemory
Author
Call number940.5318/0324
Object number06779c
Place of publicationRochester, New York, United States
PublisherCamden House
Year of publication
2008
Physical descriptionpp62-85
MaterialArticle
Series titleScreen cultures: German film and the visual
ISBN9781571133830
NotesArticle fromthe book 'Visualizing the Holocaust' pp62-85
Description
Compares Marianne Hirsch's discussion of second-generation approaches to Holocaust memory through Holocaust photos, with Daniel Libeskinds's characterization of his work on Jewish history and memory in Berlin 'as an architecture of trauma'