Possessed by Postmemory

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

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Výsledek na webu

<a href="https://njes-journal.com/52/volume/20/issue/1/" target="_blank" >https://njes-journal.com/52/volume/20/issue/1/</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.35360/njes.541" target="_blank" >10.35360/njes.541</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Possessed by Postmemory

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

This paper analyses the short story cycle Elijah Visible by Thane Rosenbaum, who represents the second generation of American writers responding to the Holocaust. Rosenbaum focuses on what is termed the intergenerational transmission of trauma. The paper attempts to show how the fragmented identity of Adam Posner, the protagonist of the cycle, has been shaped by the legacy of his parents’ Holocaust experience. It draws on Marianne Hirsch’s concept of postmemory and follows the author’s approach to his protagonist’s appropriation of the Holocaust which results in his obsession with cataclysmic wartime experiences. The paper also examines Rosenbaum’s attitude to the silence surrounding the Holocaust and its effects. It explores how the repression of the tragic family history as a defense mechanism leads to the alienation of children from their parents and profoundly complicates their mutual relationship. Furthermore, gaps and blanks in the knowledge of the past, together with the impossibility of fully grasping the original trauma, fuel the protagonist’s imagination. This imaginative investment also forms the main character’s postmemory and contributes to his feeling of being relocated in space and time—his “cattle car complex”, to quote the title of the initial story of Rosenbaum’s book.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Possessed by Postmemory

Popis výsledku anglicky

This paper analyses the short story cycle Elijah Visible by Thane Rosenbaum, who represents the second generation of American writers responding to the Holocaust. Rosenbaum focuses on what is termed the intergenerational transmission of trauma. The paper attempts to show how the fragmented identity of Adam Posner, the protagonist of the cycle, has been shaped by the legacy of his parents’ Holocaust experience. It draws on Marianne Hirsch’s concept of postmemory and follows the author’s approach to his protagonist’s appropriation of the Holocaust which results in his obsession with cataclysmic wartime experiences. The paper also examines Rosenbaum’s attitude to the silence surrounding the Holocaust and its effects. It explores how the repression of the tragic family history as a defense mechanism leads to the alienation of children from their parents and profoundly complicates their mutual relationship. Furthermore, gaps and blanks in the knowledge of the past, together with the impossibility of fully grasping the original trauma, fuel the protagonist’s imagination. This imaginative investment also forms the main character’s postmemory and contributes to his feeling of being relocated in space and time—his “cattle car complex”, to quote the title of the initial story of Rosenbaum’s book.

Druh

J_SC - Článek v periodiku v databázi SCOPUS

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60206 - Specific literatures

Projekt

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Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2021

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Nordic Journal of English Studies

ISSN

1654-6970

e-ISSN

1654-6970

Svazek periodika

20

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

1

Stát vydavatele periodika

SE - Švédské království

Počet stran výsledku

24

Strana od-do

103-126

Kód UT WoS článku

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EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85110701229