Holocaust graphic narratives : generation, trauma, and memory / Victoria Aarons

Bibliographische Detailangaben
VerfasserIn: Aarons, Victoria (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New Brunswick ; New Jersey ; London : Rutgers University Press, 2020
Online Zugang:Inhaltsverzeichnis
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Introduction: Holocaust graphic narratives: visual testimonies of memory
  • The performance of memory: Miriam Katin's we are on our own
  • A child survivor's (auto) biographical memoir
  • Memory frames: Mendel's daughter, a second-generation perspective
  • "Replacing absence with memory": Bernice Eisenstein's graphic memoir
  • I was the child of Holocaust survivors
  • Flying couch: a third-generation tapestry of memory
  • Yossel: April 19, 1943: possible histories
  • Visual landscapes of memory: fracturing time and space
  • Epilogue: an inheritance of memory. "Holocaust Graphic Narratives examines Holocaust graphic novels and memoirs, analyzing the genre as one that enables intergenerational transmission of trauma and memory. Here, the graphic novel becomes a medium uniquely positioned to create a sense of felt immediacy, urgency, and authenticity at the intersection of history and the imagination"--