Marianne Hirsch en Leo Spitzer zijn vooraanstaande literatuurwetenschappers wiens werk zich verdiept in de complexiteit van herinnering, familiegeschiedenis en culturele erfenis. Hirsch's onderzoek verkent de kruising van visuele media en narratief, en onderzoekt hoe fotografie ons begrip van het verleden en persoonlijke herinneringen vormt. Spitzer, met zijn historische focus, belicht de ingewikkelde dynamiek tussen cultuur, herinnering en trauma, met name met betrekking tot vluchtervaringen. Samen bieden hun geschriften diepgaande inzichten in hoe individuen en samenlevingen hun nalatenschap construeren en bewaren.
Can we remember other people's memories? This book argues that we can: that memories of traumatic events live on to mark the lives of those who were not there to experience them. In these revised critical readings of the literary and visual legacies of the Holocaust, Hirsch builds on her influential concept of postmemory.
First Published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Incongruous images -- Why school photos? -- Imperial frames -- Framing difference -- Exclusionary frames -- The "disobedient gaze."
Can the story be told? Jorge Semprun asked after his liberation from Buchenwald. The question is addressed from many angles in this volume of essays on teaching about the Holocaust. In their introduction, Marianne Hirsch and Irene Kacandes argue that Semprun's question is as vital now, and as difficult and complex, as it was for the survivors in 1945.The thirty-eight contributors to Teaching the Representation of the Holocaust come from various disciplines (history, literary criticism, psychology, film studies) and address a wide range of issues pertinent to the teaching of a subject that many teachers and students feel is an essential part of a liberal arts education.This volume offers approaches to such works as Jurek Becker's Jacob the Liar , Roberto Benigni's Life Is Beautiful , Anne Frank's diary, Daniel Jonah Goldhagen's Hitler's Willing Executioners , Claude Lanzmann's Shoah , Primo Levi's Survival in Auschwitz , Cynthia Ozick's The Shawl , Dan Pagis's "Written in Pencil in the Sealed Railway Car," Art Spiegelman's Maus , Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List , Elie Wiesel's Night , and Abraham Yehoshua's Mr. Mani .To the challenge "How do we transmit so hurtful an image of our own species without killing hope and breeding indifference?" posed by Geoffrey Hartman in this volume, the editors respond, "Only in the very human context of classroom interaction can we hope to avoid either false redemption or unending despair."