Date of Award
2015
Document Type
Thesis
Publication Status
Version of Record
Submission Date
October 2026
Thesis/Dissertation Advisor [Chair]
Berger, Alan L.
Abstract
Postmemory is an interpretive theory that describes the relationship between the children of Holocaust survivors (Second-generation witnesses) and the trauma suffered by their parents. This thesis extends postmemory in two ways: first, postmemory is extended to include refugees who escaped the Holocaust. Thus, refugee families are situated in the three familial paradigms of Holocaust memory. Second, postmemory is extended to Third-generation witnesses (grandchildren of Holocaust survivors and refugees). Manifestations and representations of postmemory in Third-generation refugee families is demonstrated by authorial narration of photographs in third-generation refugee writer Erika Dreifus's short story collection Quiet Americans.
Extent
78 p.
Recommended Citation
Hall, Dennis Carmen, "Authorial Narration of Photographs: Postmemory In Erika Dreifus's Short Story Collection Quiet Americans" (2015). Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019. 1179.
https://digitalcommons.fau.edu/etd_general_6/1179
Identifier
FA00004503
Comments
Includes bibliography.|Thesis (M.S.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2015.|FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection|Includes bibliography.