Memory Thieves
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20106266 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sue Vice (0000-0002-4772-7739, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 57 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 114-126 |
| Publication date | 2019-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | English Language Notes (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-8282 • E-ISSN: 2573-3575 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/00138282-7716196 |
| OpenAlex | W2982284375 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 14 |
This article examines the contemporary phenomenon of fiction and film about Holocaust survivors suffering from dementia. Earlier examples of this kind use dementia to explore the interior states of survivor guilt and the suppression of painful memories. By contrast, twenty-first-century representations convey the passing on of Holocaust memory to the next generation. These individuals, in the role of offspring or carers, act as the investigators and inheritors of a history that either has vanished from the survivor’s memory or appears in the present as if it were still taking place. Such works are expressive of cultural anxiety at the vanishing of the generation of eyewitnesses to the events of the Holocaust yet also act to defuse the unwelcome lessons such witnesses might impart
Anxiety · Dementia · Epistemology · Holocaust survivors · Phenomenon · Political science · Psychiatry · Psychoanalysis · The Holocaust · History · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Law · Medicine · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Nostalgia and Consumer Behavior · Philosophy · Psychology
Stranded objects
Dementia As a Cultural Metaphor
Accidents of Influence
The Future of the Past
Nazis disguised as Jews and Israel’s pursuit of justice
From the medicalisation of dementia to the politics of memory and identity in three Spanish documentary films
The Generation of Postmemory
Transformations between History and Memory
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.17 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2020 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |