global semiotics of trauma and testimony: a comparative study of Jewish Israeli, Cambodian Canadian, and Cambodian genocide descendant legacies
TitleThe global semiotics of trauma and testimony: a comparative study of Jewish Israeli, Cambodian Canadian, and Cambodian genocide descendant legacies
Author
Call number940.5318/0384
Object number06066h
Place of publicationNew York, New York, United States
PublisherBerghahn Books
Year of publication
2015
Physical descriptionpp146-170
MaterialArticle
Series titleMaking sense of history ; volume 21
ISBN9781782386193
NotesArticle from the book ' Marking evil: Holocaust memory in the global age' pp146-170
Description
Compares patterns of intergenerational transmission of the genocide legacy in Jewish Israeli and Cambodian second generations. She concludes that though very different from each other, both are very much culturally constructed and hence deviate from the globally disseminated reductionist profile of pathologically captivated trauma descendants.