Shadows of Trauma: Memory and the Politics of Postwar Identity

by Aleida Assmann

Book Overview

We have left the twentieth century, but this century of violence and extremes has not left us: Its shadow has become longer and blacker. Seventy years after the end of the Second World War, the memory of the Holocaust is less and less anchored in the lived experience of survivors and witnesses.

Shadows of Trauma analyzes the transformation of the past from an individual experience to a collective construction, with special attention to the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823267288
• ISBN13: 9780823267286
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"