Marianne Hirsch Knihy

"Published 1997 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. Reissued by the author, 2012."-- T.p. verso.

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.

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.

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.

Incongruous images -- Why school photos? -- Imperial frames -- Framing difference -- Exclusionary frames -- The "disobedient gaze."