Language:
English
Year of publication:
1996
Titel der Quelle:
Narrative
Angaben zur Quelle:
4,1 (1996) 1-16
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence
Abstract:
If memory constitutes the core of individual identity, national memory constitutes the core of national identity. Discusses the methodology and the meaning of the conversion of history into memory, exemplified by the Blacks' memory of slavery and the Jews' memory of the Holocaust, and examines the process in terms of deconstructionist and New Historicism theory. Pp. 8-13 relate to Holocaust remembrance. States that if the passing of eyewitnesses and the fading of memories gives the question of what sustains Jewish identity a new urgency, the new deployment of deconstruction - explaining how texts, by way of the performative, can produce the transformation of the historical past into the remembered past - helps make the Holocaust available as a continuing source of identitarian sustenance.
Note:
Appeared also in "The Americanization of the Holocaust" (1999).
URL:
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