Family Frames. Photography, Narrative and Postmemory
- 320 pages
- 12 hours of reading
"Published 1997 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. Reissued by the author, 2012."-- T.p. verso.
Marianne Hirsch Books
Marianne Hirsch and Leo Spitzer are leading literary scholars whose work delves into the complexities of memory, family history, and cultural inheritance. Hirsch's scholarship explores the intersection of visual media and narrative, examining how photography shapes our understanding of the past and personal recollections. Spitzer, with his historical focus, illuminates the intricate dynamics between culture, memory, and trauma, particularly concerning experiences of refuge. Together, their writings offer profound insights into how individuals and societies construct and preserve their legacies.
Can we remember other people's memories? This book argues that we can: that memories of traumatic events live on to mark the lives of those who were not there to experience them. In these revised critical readings of the literary and visual legacies of the Holocaust, Hirsch builds on her influential concept of postmemory.
Ghosts of Home
- 392 pages
- 14 hours of reading
In modern-day Ukraine, east of the Carpathian Mountains, there is an invisible city. Known as Czernowitz, the 'Vienna of the East' under the Habsburg empire, this vibrant Jewish-German Eastern European culture vanished after World War II. This memoir chronicles the city's survival in personal, familial, and cultural memory.
First Published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Memory as Colonial Capital
Cross-Cultural Encounters in French and English
- 220 pages
- 8 hours of reading
Focusing on the interplay between postcolonial memory and colonial narratives, this volume explores how writers from the Caribbean, Africa, and the U.S. confront and reinterpret historical memory in their works from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It addresses the urgent issue of contested memory, highlighting how colonial history has suppressed and manipulated collective and individual recollections. Johnson and Brezault contextualize the politics of memory writing, making significant contributions to cultural memory studies and postcolonial discourse.
School Photos in Liquid Time
- 224 pages
- 8 hours of reading
Incongruous images -- Why school photos? -- Imperial frames -- Framing difference -- Exclusionary frames -- The "disobedient gaze."