Volume IV Special Issue I January 2024

Name of Author : Dr. S. Suganya, Sreedevi S

Title of the paper : Daughter of Holocaust: Expressing Postmemory as Trauma through Hannah of Norma Rosens At the Center

Abstract: The term Postmemory is described as the relationship that bears a personal space after generations which can lead to collective trauma. The idea withholds trauma of those who came to experience the cultural history before they remember stories, images, and behaviors in which they grew old, an indirect connection to subsequent generations. The concept was first seen in Marianne Hirschs work in the early nineties, her idea also focuses on the memory of survivors and postmemory of the second generation which equally negates the process of narration and imagination. The paper seeks to capture postmemory and its effect on holocaust survivors. The novel is set in a hospital in a developed nation where people find a new identity and it revolves around Hannah, who works there. The novel by Norma Rosen touches on Hannahs response to the events in a new world that collapses like her prediction, as the keen observer of people in her life transits memory of Auschwitz, dead parents, and repressive to the events in the hospital, thus Hannah the daughter of holocaust stood like a word of no wings, totally motionless in the work. The aspect of postmemory in the narrative lights as a response from an American point of view to the holocaust survivors of the second generation, as a political response to the abortion centres, and the novel comments on womens right to be owners of the body and be the decision markers irrespective of the social eyes. Thus evaluates the political role of a historical event holocaust in response to trauma including memory passes from generation one.

Keywords : Postmemory, Trauma, Holocaust, American Response, Second Generation

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Page Number : 21-25