LEADER 03461cam a2200385Ia 4500001 97945 005 20240621175832.0 008 040924s2001 xx rb 000 0 eng d 035 (OCoLC)ocm56572273 035 97945 049 LHMA 040 LHM |beng |erda |cLHM 090 PN56.H55 |bF753 2001 100 1 Friedman, Michelle A. |q(Michelle Ann), |d1963- 245 10 Reckoning with ghosts : |bsecond generation Holocaust literature and the labor of remembrance / |cby Michelle A. Friedman. 264 1 [Place of publication not identified] : |b[publisher not identified], |c2001. 300 vi, 221 pages 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 502 Thesis (Ph.D.)--Bryn Mawr College, 2004. 504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 210-221). 520 This dissertation examines American literature written by the second generation-children of Holocaust survivors and their Jewish contemporaries-and considers the role these texts play in the cultural and intergenerational transmission of memory. Building on current scholarship (Saul Friedlander, Geoffrey Hartman, Andreas Huyssen, James E. Young, Yael Zerubavel), which argues that it is impossible to know the Holocaust except through various forms of representation and by means of narrative interpretation, I assert that what we can know about the Holocaust continues to emerge even in literature and art produced by those whose knowledge of this traumatic history emerges not from experience but from imagination, and not from memory but from the experience of living with memory. The writers, film-makers, and artists whose work I read (Shimon Attie, Melvin J. Bukiet, Helen Epstein, Irena Klepfisz, Abraham Ravett, Steven Reich, Thane Rosenbaum, Julie Salamon, Art Spiegelman) contribute to our ongoing understanding of this traumatic past. In their narratives, they reveal the ways the Holocaust has shifted, and continues to shift, our cultural consciousness and our understanding of the present. They do so, primarily, by engaging in a process I call, after Andreas Huyssen, the labor of remembrance. This labor entails representing and reflecting on the complicated relationship the second generation possesses to memory and to history; and, this labor allows these writers and artists to articulate their struggles to position themselves in relation to the Holocaust without simplifying or erasing its complexities. In these texts, the second generation wrestles with what it means to remember the Holocaust at this point in time and what it means to remember the Holocaust here, in America, a place which itself is haunted by the traumatic histories native to this landscape. 530 Electronic version(s) |bavailable internally at USHMM. 533 Photocopy. |bAnn Arbor, Mich. : |cUMI Dissertation Services, |d2004. |e22 cm. 590 Dissertations and Theses 591 Record updated by Marcive processing 21 June 2024 650 0 Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature. 650 0 Children of Holocaust survivors. 856 41 |uhttp://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=764865541&sid=19&Fmt=6&clientId=54617&RQT=309&VName=PQD |zElectronic version from ProQuest 956 41 |u http://dc.ushmm.org/library/bib97945/3104074.pdf |z Hosted by USHMM. 994 X0 |bLHM 852 0 |bstacks |hPN56.H55 |iF753 2001 852 |bwww 852 0 |bebook