The future of the past: Countermemory and postmemory in contemporary American post-holocaust narratives

TitleThe future of the past: Countermemory and postmemory in contemporary American post-holocaust narratives
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2000
AuthorsEfraim Sicher
JournalHistory and Memory
Volume12
Issue2
Pagination56-91
ISSN0935560X
Abstract

Collective memory cannot be divorced from its construction in culture. As the Broadway version of "The Diary of Anne Frank did so phenomenally, plays, novels and movies generate cultural perceptions in ways that are particularly problematic and that stimulate further media reworking of the memory. Sicher attempts to illustrate this with material which is often disturbing for its provocative or shocking use of Holocaust memories.

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Short TitleThe future of the past