Haunting Legacies: Violent Histories and Transgenerational Trauma

by Gabriele Schwab

Book Overview

From mass murder to genocide, slavery to colonial suppression, acts of atrocity have lives that extend far beyond the horrific moment. They engender trauma that echoes for generations, in the experiences of those on both sides of the act. Gabriele Schwab reads these legacies in a number of narratives, primarily through the writing of postwar Germans and the descendents of Holocaust survivors. She connects their work to earlier histories of slavery...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231152574
• ISBN13: 9780231152570
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.8"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher