Haunting legacies
Subtitle: violent histories and transgenerational trauma
By: Gabriele Schwab
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 227
ISBN-13: 9780231152563; 9780231152570; 9780231526357
Subjects: Psychic trauma in literature; Psychology; Violence in literature; Violence; Psychoanalysis and literature; Children of Holocaust survivors; World War, 1939-1945; Psychological aspects; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-210) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Writing against memory and forgetting; title: Haunting legacies: trauma in children of perpetrators; title: Identity trouble: guilt, shame, and idealization; title: Replacement children: the transgenerational transmission of traumatic loss; title: Deadly intimacy: the politics and psychic life of torture.