Memory Work [electronic resource] : The Second Generation /
Fischer, Nina.author.
Memory Work studies how Jewish children of Holocaust survivors from the English-speaking diaspora explore the past in literary texts. By identifying areas where memory manifests - Objects, Names, Bodies, Food, Passover, 9/11 it shows how the Second Generation engage with the pre-Holocaust family and their parents' survival.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover ; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction Memory Work: The Second Generation                                                        ; The development of the Second Generation                                               ; Scope and structure                          ; 2 Objects                ; The meaning of objects                             ; Family possessions in the Second Generation                                                  ; Holocaust mementos
Objects in Second Generation memory work                                               3 Names              ; Names as acts of memory                              ; Names and the process of memory work                                           ; Names as relational nodes of memory                                          ; Names, family communication, and the process of memory work                                                                  ; Migrant family names                           ; Names in Second Generation memory work
4 Bodies               Written on the body                          ; Bodily reactions to memory triggers                                          ; The specter of sexual abuse                                  ; The Auschwitz tattoo                           ; The Second Generation and the Auschwitz tattoo                                                     ; The 'Jewish body'                        ; The Second Generation's 'Jewish look'                                            ; Hair
Interpreting and connecting one's body as a node of memory                                                                 Physical resemblances                            ; Bodies in Second Generation memory work                                              ; 5 Food             ; Food as traumatic memory                               ; Food attitudes linked to starvation: obsessive eating and overfeeding                                                                            ; Food attitudes linked to starvation: hoarding
Starvation memories                          Food as family connection                                ; The Second Generation in the network of food memories                                                            ; Food and ethnic connections                                  ; Food in Second Generation memory work                                            ; 6 Passover                 ; The Holocaust as a constant presence                                           ; Passover as a node of explicit Holocaust memory
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Memory Work studies how Jewish children of Holocaust survivors from the English-speaking diaspora explore the past in literary texts. By identifying areas where memory manifests - Objects, Names, Bodies, Food, Passover, 9/11 it shows how the Second Generation engage with the pre-Holocaust family and their parents' survival.
Historiography.
Civilization-History.
World War, 1939-1945.
Children's literature.
Communication.
Social sciences.
Memory Studies.
Cultural History.
History of World War II and the Holocaust.
Children's Literature.
Media Studies.
Social Sciences, general.