Memory Work

The Second Generation
2015. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-137-55761-2
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 262 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 4434 g

Reihe: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies

Memory Work studies how Jewish children of Holocaust survivors from the English-speaking diaspora explore the past in literary texts. By identifying areas where memory manifests - Objects, Names, Bodies, Food, Passover, 9/11 it shows how the Second Generation engage with the pre-Holocaust family and their parents' survival.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fischer, Nina

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatursoziologie, Gender Studies
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien: Literatur & Kunst

Über Autor(innen)

Nina Fischer teaches Jewish Studies at the University of Edinburgh, UK. She has held positions and fellowships at the University of Konstanz, the Australian National University and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her research areas include Holocaust, Memory, Cultural, and Jewish Studies.