Introduction: visual testimonies of memory -- The performance of memory: Miriam Katin's we are on our own, a child survivor's (auto) biographical memoir -- Memory frames: Mendel's daughter, a second-generation perspective -- "Replacing absence with memory": Bernice Eisenstein's graphic memoir I was the child of Holocaust survivors -- Flying couch: a third-generation tapestry of memory -- Yossel: April 19, 1943: possible histories -- Visual landscapes of memory: fracturing time and space -- Epilogue: an inheritance of memory.
Summary:
"Holocaust Graphic Narratives examines Holocaust graphic novels and memoirs, analyzing the genre as one that enables intergenerational transmission of trauma and memory. Here, the graphic novel becomes a medium uniquely positioned to create a sense of felt immediacy, urgency, and authenticity at the intersection of history and the imagination"-- Provided by publisher.
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