the absence of a bodily identity with her mother, Karpf, like Sethe, risks losing her sense of herself
Alexandra Lisogorhat Zitat gemachtvor 3 Jahren
Memory is transmitted to be repeated and reenacted, not to be worked through
Alexandra Lisogorhat Zitat gemachtvor 3 Jahren
Anne Karpf’s relationship to her mother becomes incorporative and appropriative—more a form of “transposition” than identification.
Alexandra Lisogorhat Zitat gemachtvor 3 Jahren
divest myself of my skin, slip out of it
Alexandra Lisogorhat Zitat gemachtvor 3 Jahren
enumerates the bodily symptoms through which she experiences her mother’s sense memories of the camps
Alexandra Lisogorhat Zitat gemachtvor 3 Jahren
Within the intimate familial space of mother/daughter transmission, however, postmemory always risks sliding into rememory, traumatic reenactment, and repetition.
Alexandra Lisogorhat Zitat gemachtvor 3 Jahren
the disavowal of this bodily mirroring.
Alexandra Lisogorhat Zitat gemachtvor 3 Jahren
postgeneration’s ambivalent wish to locate parental trauma in a precise spot
Alexandra Lisogorhat Zitat gemachtvor 3 Jahren
the necessity and the impossibility of receiving the parents’ bodily experience of trauma
Alexandra Lisogorhat Zitat gemachtvor 3 Jahren
The mark of untranslatability becomes the untranslatability of the mark