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Summary:

"At Home with the Holocaust examines the relationship between intergenerational trauma and domestic space, focusing on how Holocaust survivors' homes became extensions of their traumatized psyches that their children "inhabited." Analyzing literature and oral histories of children of survivors, Lucas F. W. Wilson's study reveals how the material conditions of survivor-family homes, along with household practices and belongings, rendered these homes spaces of traumatic transference. As survivors' traumas became imbued in the very space of the domestic, their homes functioned as material archives of their Holocaust pasts, creating environments that, not uncommonly, second-handedly wounded their children. As survivor-family homes were imaginatively transformed by survivors' children into the sites of their parents' traumas, like concentration camps and ghettos, their homes catalyzed the transmission of these traumas"-- [Provided by publisher]

Author/Creator:

Wilson, Lucas F. W. , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

At home with the Holocaust: postmemory, domestic space, and second-generation holocaust narratives [by Wilson, L.F.W.]

Subjects:

American literature — History and criticism

Children of Holocaust survivors, Writings of, American — History and criticism

Home in literature

Memory in literature

Psychic trauma in literature

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Call Numbers:

PS153.C444 W55 2025eb

ISBNs:

9781978839847 (electronic bk.)
1978839847 (electronic bk.)
9781978839816 [Invalid]
1978839812 [Invalid]
9781978839823 [Invalid]
1978839820 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

1485004411

Other Control Numbers:

EBC31607120 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp21329033