Postmemory, afterimages, transferred loss: first and third generation Holocaust trauma in American literatrue and film

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'