Victoria Aarons

Holocaust Graphic Narratives

Generation, Trauma, and Memory

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9781978802568
• ISBN-10: 1978802560
• Artikelnr.: 56750153

Autorenporträt

Victoria Aarons holds the position of O.R. and Eva Mitchell Distinguished Professor of Literature at Trinity University, where she teaches courses on American Jewish and Holocaust literatures.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Holocaust Graphic Narratives: Visual Testimonies of Memory
1          The Performance of Memory: Miriam Katin's We Are On Our Own,
            A Child Survivor's (Auto)Biographical Memoir
2          Memory Frames: Mendel's Daughter, A Second-Generation
Perspective
3          "Replacing absence with memory": Bernice Eisenstein's Graphic
Memoir
            I Was the Child of Holocaust Survivors
4          Flying Couch: A Third-Generation Tapestry of Memory
5          Yossel: April 19, 1943: Possible Histories
6          Visual Landscapes of Memory: Fracturing Time and Space
            Epilogue: An Inheritance of Memory
Acknowledgments
            Notes
Bibliography
            Index
            About the Author