• Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
At Home with the Holocaust: Postmemory, Domestic Space, and Second-Generation Holocaust Narratives

At Home with the Holocaust: Postmemory, Domestic Space, and Second-Generation Holocaust Narratives

Hardcover

Literary CriticismHolocaust

Currently unavailable to order

ISBN10: 1978839820
ISBN13: 9781978839823
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: Mar 11 2025
Pages: 188
Weight: 0.87
Height: 0.78 Width: 6.36 Depth: 9.18
Language: English
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 second- and third-generation Holocaust literature--such as Art Spiegelman's Maus, Jonathan Safran Foer's Everything Is Illuminated, Sonia Pilcer's The Holocaust Kid, and Elizabeth Rosner's The Speed of Light--as well as 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 as 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.

1 different editions

Also available

Also in

Holocaust