{"product_id":"haunting-legacies-violent-histories-and-transgenerational-trauma-9780231152570","title":"Haunting Legacies: Violent Histories and Transgenerational Trauma","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Gabriele Schwab\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Columbia University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Ethics \u0026amp; Moral Philosophy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrom mass murder to genocide, slavery to colonial suppression, acts of atrocity have lives that extend far beyond the horrific moment. They engender trauma that echoes for generations, in the experiences of those on both sides of the act. Gabriele Schwab reads these legacies in a number of narratives, primarily through the writing of postwar Germans and the descendents of Holocaust survivors. She connects their work to earlier histories of slavery and colonialism and to more recent events, such as South African Apartheid, the practice of torture after 9\/11, and the \"disappearances\" that occurred during South American dictatorships.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSchwab's texts include memoirs, such as Ruth Kluger's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eStill Alive\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and Marguerite Duras's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eLa Douleur\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e; second-generation accounts by the children of Holocaust survivors, such as Georges Perec's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eW\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Art Spiegelman's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eMaus\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, and Philippe Grimbert's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eSecret\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e; and second-generation recollections by Germans, such as W. G. Sebald's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eAusterlitz\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Sabine Reichel's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eWhat Did You Do in the War, Daddy?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, and Ursula Duba's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eTales from a Child of the Enemy\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. She also incorporates her own reminiscences of growing up in postwar Germany, mapping interlaced memories and histories as they interact in psychic life and cultural memory. Schwab concludes with a bracing look at issues of responsibility, reparation, and forgiveness across the victim\/perpetrator divide.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45268805517463,"sku":"9780231152570","price":2072.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780231152570.webp?v=1769236586","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/haunting-legacies-violent-histories-and-transgenerational-trauma-9780231152570","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}