How Societies Remember and The Generation of Postmemory


Paul Connerton`s How Societies Remember (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989) and Marianne Hirsch`s The Generation of Postmemory: writing and visual culture after the Holocaust (New York: Columbia Press, 2012) investigate how we construct, transmit, and preserve memory. In the chapter Bodily Practices, Connerton emphasizes memory as a cultural faculty and the importance of incorporating practices […]