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disposition > cognition > memory > collective memory > postmemory

Preferred term

postmemory  

Definition

  • "The relationship that later generations or distant contemporary witnesses bear to the personal, collective, and cultural trauma of others—to experiences they 'remember' or know only by means of stories, images, and behaviors" (Hirsch, 2014a).

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Bibliographic citation(s)

  • • Beiner, G. (2014). Probing the boundaries of Irish memory : From postmemory to prememory and back. Irish Historical Studies, 39(154), 296‑307. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021121400019106

    [Study type: historical study / Access: closed]
  • • Hirsch, M. (2014a). Presidential Address 2014—Connective Histories in Vulnerable Times. PMLA, 129(3), 330‑348. https://doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2014.129.3.330

    [Study type: historical study / Access: closed]
  • • Hirsch, M. (2014b). Postmémoire. Témoigner. Entre histoire et mémoire. Revue pluridisciplinaire de la Fondation Auschwitz, 118, 205‑206. https://doi.org/10.4000/temoigner.1274

    [Study type: historical study / Access: open]

Creator

  • Frank Arnould

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/P66-RX649WCG-Z

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