Book chapter
Holocaust Narratives and their Impact: Personal Identification and Communal Roles
Jewishness, p151
24 Apr 2008
Abstract
Scholarly attention within the humanities and social sciences has converged on aspects of trauma and its aftermath, especially the effect of trauma on personal and cultural formations of identity. Studies that range in perspective from the anthropological, the sociological, and the historical to the literary, the psychological, and the philosophical examine the long-term consequences of the experience of trauma on human beings and how their constructions of traumatic memories shape the meanings they attribute to these events (Brenner 2004; Lifton 1993; Van der Kolk, McFarlane, and Weisaeth 1996). Researchers from a variety of perspectives have investigated the history of the
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- Title
- Holocaust Narratives and their Impact
- Creators
- HANNAH KligerBEA HOLLANDER-GOLDFEINEMILIE S. Passow - Drexel University
- Contributors
- SIMON J. Bronner (Editor)
- Publication Details
- Jewishness, p151
- Publisher
- The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- English and Philosophy; Medical Humanities
- Other Identifier
- 991022041444004721