Holocaust Graphic Narratives

Generation, Trauma, and Memory

Victoria Aarons (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

256 Seiten

2019
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-1-9788-0256-8 (ISBN)

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Demonstrates the range and fluidity of this richly figured genre. Employing memory as her controlling trope, Victoria Aarons analyses the work of the graphic novelists and illustrators, making clear how they extend the traumatic narrative of the Holocaust into the present and, in doing so, give voice to survival in the wake of unrecoverable loss.

In Holocaust Graphic Narratives, Victoria Aarons demonstrates the range and fluidity of this richly figured genre. Employing memory as her controlling trope, Aarons analyzes the work of the graphic novelists and illustrators, making clear how they extend the traumatic narrative of the Holocaust into the present and, in doing so, give voice to survival in the wake of unrecoverable loss. In recreating moments of traumatic rupture, dislocation, and disequilibrium, these graphic narratives contribute to the evolving field of Holocaust representation and establish a new canon of visual memory. The intergenerational dialogue established by Aarons' reading of these narratives speaks to the on-going obligation to bear witness to the Holocaust. Examined together, these intergenerational works bridge the erosions created by time and distance. As a genre of witnessing, these graphic stories, in retracing the traumatic tracks of memory, inscribe the weight of history on generations that follow.

Victoria Aarons holds the position of O.R. and Eva Mitchell Distinguished Professor of Literature at Trinity University, where she teaches courses on American Jewish and Holocaust literatures.

Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Holocaust Graphic Narratives: Visual Testimonies of Memory
1          The Performance of Memory: Miriam Katin's We Are On Our Own,
            A Child Survivor's (Auto)Biographical Memoir
2          Memory Frames: Mendel's Daughter, A Second-Generation Perspective
3          "Replacing absence with memory": Bernice Eisenstein's Graphic Memoir
            I Was the Child of Holocaust Survivors
4          Flying Couch: A Third-Generation Tapestry of Memory
5          Yossel: April 19, 1943: Possible Histories
6          Visual Landscapes of Memory: Fracturing Time and Space
            Epilogue: An Inheritance of Memory
Acknowledgments
            Notes
Bibliography
            Index
            About the Author

Erscheinungsdatum	31.12.2019
Zusatzinfo	39
Verlagsort	New Brunswick NJ
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	472 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	1-9788-0256-0 / 1978802560
ISBN-13	978-1-9788-0256-8 / 9781978802568
Zustand	Neuware