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Shaping Losses - CULTURAL MEMORY AND THE HOLOCAUST (Paperback, New)
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Shaping Losses - CULTURAL MEMORY AND THE HOLOCAUST (Paperback, New)
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Shaping Losses explores how traumatic loss affects identity and how
those who are shaped by loss give shape, in turn, to the empty
place where something--relationships, family, culture--was and is
no longer. Taking the example of the decimation of European Jewry
during the Nazi era, Shaping Losses confronts the problem of
transforming trauma into cultural memory. This eloquent volume
examines how memoirs, films, photographs, art, and literature, as
well as family conversations and personal remembrances, embody the
impulse to preserve what is destroyed. The contributors -- all
distinguished women scholars, most of them survivors or daughters
of survivors--examine classic memorializations such as Claude
Lanzmann's film Shoah and Roman Vishniac's photographs of prewar
Jews as well as several less-well-known works. They also address
ways in which children of survivors of the Holocaust--and of other
catastrophic traumas--struggle with inherited or vicarious memory,
striving to come to terms with losses that centrally define them
although they experience them only indirectly. Shaping Losses
considers the limitations of Holocaust representations and
testimonies that capture shards of the experience but are
necessarily selective and reductive. Contributors discuss artistic
efforts to "preserve the rawness" of memory, to resist redemptive
closure in Holocaust narratives and public memorials, and to
prevent the Holocaust from being sealed in "the cold storage of
history." The authors probe the nature of memory and of trauma,
studying the use of language within and outside a traumatic context
such as Auschwitz and pinpointing the qualities that make traumatic
memory ineffable, untransmittable, and perhaps unreliable. Within
the "haunted terrain of traumatized memory" that all Holocaust
testimonies inhabit, the impulse to give form to emptiness--to
shape loss--emerges as a necessary betrayal, a vital effort to
bridge the gap between history and memory.
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