Like daughter, like grandson

Queering post-traumatic memory

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ID12905402
AuthorsGolan Moskowitz (0000-0002-4483-7975, Tulane University, corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume16
Issue4
Pages794-818
Publication date2021-01-07
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueMemory Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1750-6980 • E-ISSN: 1750-6999
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1750698020982017
OpenAlexW3120511807
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited21

Queer and trauma theory both concern internal experiences that challenge normative social frameworks. Considering the roles of queerness within trauma and memory studies opens interpretive pathways for otherwise discredited or inaccessible meanings. It also relates survivors’ receding knowledge to those currently “queered” or endangered. With a focus on childhood and mother-child relationships, this article maps intersections of memory studies, queer theory, and trauma theory, applying subsequent insights to an “autotheoretical” analysis of the author’s own transnational, post-Holocaust family across four generations. It explores the possibility through queer studies of excavating new post-traumatic meanings and relating those meanings to present contexts

Cognitive psychology · Epistemology · Holocaust survivors · Normative · Psychoanalysis · Queer · Queer theory · Sociology · The Holocaust · Traumatic memories · Gender Studies · Gender, Security, and Conflict · German History and Society · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Psychology

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