Holocaust graphic narratives : generation, trauma, and memory /

"Holocaust Graphic Narratives examines Holocaust graphic novels and memoirs, analyzing the genre as one that enables intergenerational transmission of trauma and memory. Here, the graphic novel becomes a medium uniquely positioned to create a sense of felt immediacy, urgency, and authenticity a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Aarons, Victoria (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2020]
Subjects:	Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature. Graphic novels > History and criticism. Autobiography. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Influence. Literature, Modern > 20th century > History and criticism. Literature, Modern > 21st century > History and criticism. Graphic novels. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) in literature. Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) Literature, Modern. 1900-2099 Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: visual testimonies of memory
The performance of memory: Miriam Katin's we are on our own, a child survivor's (auto) biographical memoir
Memory frames: Mendel's daughter, a second-generation perspective
"Replacing absence with memory": Bernice Eisenstein's graphic memoir I was the child of Holocaust survivors
Flying couch: a third-generation tapestry of memory
Yossel: April 19, 1943: possible histories
Visual landscapes of memory: fracturing time and space
Epilogue: an inheritance of memory.