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At Home with the Holocaust : Postmemory, Domestic Space, and Second-Generation Holocaust Narratives.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wilson, Lucas F. W.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- Children of Holocaust survivors, Writings of, American--History and criticism.
- Children of Holocaust survivors, Writings of, American.
- Home in literature.
- Memory in literature.
- Psychic trauma in literature.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature.
- Genre:
- Literary criticism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (192 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, 2025.
- 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"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 Postmemorial Structures
- 2 “Remember, my house it’s also your house too”
- 3 Domestic(ated) (Un)fashioning
- 4 A Tale of Two Storeys
- 5 Pre/Occupied Longing
- Conclusion
- Appendix
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-9788-3983-9
- 1-9788-3984-7
- OCLC:
- 1485004411
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