Diaspora, Postmemory and the Transcultural Turn in Contemporary Jewish Writing: Barbara Honigmann’s Autofictional Writings

According to Marianne Hirsch, descendants of exiled Holocaust survivors unwillingly inherit their parents continued dislocation: as the homeland of their ancestors has “ceased to exist” they are destined forever to remain exiled from the “space of identity” (Family 243). The German Jewish writer Bar...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jessica Ortner
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Edinburgh 2015-03-01
Series:Forum
Online Access:http://www.forumjournal.org/article/view/1197