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Holocaust graphic narratives : generation, trauma, and memory

Title
Holocaust graphic narratives : generation, trauma, and memory / Victoria Aarons.
Author
Aarons, Victoria
Publication
New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2020]

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Description
vii, 241 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
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"--
Subjects
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
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.
Call Number
JFE 20-3909
ISBN
  • 9781978802568
  • 1978802560
  • 9781978802551
  • 1978802552
LCCN
  • 2019008414
  • 40029619775
OCLC
1088659211
Author
Aarons, Victoria, author.
Title
Holocaust graphic narratives : generation, trauma, and memory / Victoria Aarons.
Publisher
New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2020]
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Chronological Term
1900-2099
Other Standard Identifier
40029619775
Research Call Number
JFE 20-3909
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