The Generation of Postmemory¶
Hirsch, M. (2008). The Generation of Postmemory. Poetics Today, 29(1), 103-128.
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- Collective Memory
- Hirsch 2008 postmemory theory extends this: groups that did not directly experience a traumatic or foundational event (Holocaust survivors' children, descendants of enslaved peoples, inheritors of independence movements) nonetheless have identities shaped by memory they inherited
This sourceIntroduces postmemory: the second generation's identity-shaping relation to traumatic events (esp. the Holocaust) they did not directly experience but inherited so deeply as to seem their own.
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Hirsch's own abstract defines postmemory as the second generation's relation to traumatic events transmitted 'so deeply as to seem to constitute memories in their own right'; it names no other descendant groups.
“Postmemory describes the relationship of the second generation to powerful, often traumatic, experiences that preceded their births but that were nevertheless transmitted to them so deeply as to seem to constitute memories in their own right.”
- Hirsch 2008 postmemory theory extends this: groups that did not directly experience a traumatic or foundational event (Holocaust survivors' children, descendants of enslaved peoples, inheritors of independence movements) nonetheless have identities shaped by memory they inherited
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