At home with the Holocaust : postmemory, domestic space, and second-generation Holocaust narratives /
"At Home with the Holocaust examines the relationship between intergenerational trauma and domestic space, focusing on how Holocaust survivors' homes became extensions of their traumatized psyches that their children "inhabited." Analyzing literature and oral histories of childre...
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| Language: | English |
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New Brunswick :
Rutgers University Press,
[2025]
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| Summary: | "At Home with the Holocaust examines the relationship between intergenerational trauma and domestic space, focusing on how Holocaust survivors' homes became extensions of their traumatized psyches that their children "inhabited." Analyzing literature and oral histories of children of survivors, Lucas F. W. Wilson's study reveals how the material conditions of survivor-family homes, along with household practices and belongings, rendered these homes spaces of traumatic transference. As survivors' traumas became imbued in the very space of the domestic, their homes functioned as material archives of their Holocaust pasts, creating environments that, not uncommonly, second-handedly wounded their children. As survivor-family homes were imaginatively transformed by survivors' children into the sites of their parents' traumas, like concentration camps and ghettos, their homes catalyzed the transmission of these traumas"-- |
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| Physical Description: | xiii, 173 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781978839823 9781978839816 1978839812 1978839820 |