Shaping Losses Cultural Memory and the Holocaust

Name: Shaping Losses Cultural Memory and the Holocaust
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ISBN: 9780252069499

ISBN-10: 0252069498

ISBN-13: 9780252069499

Edition: 2001

Authors: Julia Epstein, Lori Hope Lefkovitz

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"Shaping Losses explores how traumatic loss affects identity and how those who are shaped by loss give shape, in turn, to the empty place where something--relationships, family, culture--was and is no longer. Taking the example of the decimation of European Jewry during the Nazi era, Shaping Losses confronts the problem of transforming trauma into cultural memory.This eloquent volume examines how memoirs, films, photographs, art, and literature, as well as family conversations and personal remembrances, embody the impulse to preserve what is destroyed. The contributors -- all distinguished women scholars, most of them survivors or daughters of survivors--examine classic memorializations…

Book details

List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Publication date: 3/23/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.20" tall
Weight: 1.474
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction: Shaping Losses, Cultural Memory, and the Holocaust




Journeys: Recollection and Return



Journey to Darkness




My War in Four Episodes




Geographies of Loss




Images: Photograph, Film, Sculpture



Called to Witness: Viewing Lanzmann's Shoah




Z'chor! Roman Vishniac's Photo-Eulogy of East European Jews




Material Memory: Holocaust Testimony in Post-Holocaust Art




Voices: Memoirs and Stories



The Wounded Tongue: Engendering Jewish Memory




The Vicarious Witness: Belated Memory and Authorial Presence in Recent Holocaust Literature




Body, Trauma, and the Rituals of Memory: Charlotte Delbo and Ruth Kluger




Remember to Forget: The Problem of Traumatic Cultural Memory




Legacies: Paradox and Ambivalence



Between Exiles: Parenting and Cultural Memory




Inherited Memory and the Ethics of Ventriloquism



Contributors


Index