- Summary
- "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"-- Provided by publisher.
- Format
- Book
- Author/Creator
- Aarons, Victoria, author.
- Published
- New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2020]
- Contents
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Introduction: 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.
- Notes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: 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.
