Postmemory, afterimages, transferred loss: first and third generation Holocaust trauma in American literatrue and film
TitlePostmemory, afterimages, transferred loss: first and third generation Holocaust trauma in American literatrue and film
Author
Call number700.458405318/0001
Object number09103d
Place of publicationHeidelberg, Germany
PublisherUniversitatsverlag Winter
Year of publication
2010
Physical descriptionpp63-74
MaterialArticle
Series titleAmerican studies ; v. 189
ISBN9783825357344
NotesArticle from the book 'The Holocaust, art, and taboo : transatlantic exchanges on the ethics and aesthetics of representation' pp63-74
Description
Investigates the various ways in which the trauma of the Holocaust is represented by first and third generation authors and filmmakers. Codde outlines shifts in the evolution of Holocaust trauma representation from the creation of 'traumatic afterimages' in Holocaust survivors, to second generation inherited trauma to third generation 'postmemory. Holocaust trauma of the third generation is no longer effectively represented by visual means only'