German postmemory and ambivalent home desires: a critical reading of Nora Krug’s (2018) graphic novel "Heimat: a german family album"
- This review analyses the aesthetic engagement with Nazi atrocities during WWII and belonging in post-war Germany as presented in Nora Krug’s graphic novel Heimat: A German Family Album. The authors employ Marianne Hirsch’s concept of ‘postmemory’ as an analytical tool that helps them locate the complex historical and emotional contexts from which this graphic novel receives its impulses. The concrete scenes from the novel are presented and subsequently related to the field of memory and postmemory scholarship. Wider critical debates on how aesthetic articulations of past atrocities influence the next generations of ‘victims’ and ‘perpetrators’ are examined, to ask: What does it mean to inhabit memories of ghostly narratives about perpetrators and how does it form a feeling of post-home?
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| Author: | Marija Grujić, Ina Schaum |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-681957 |
| URL: | https://journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de/ethnoscripts/article/view/1422 |
| ISSN: | 2199-7942 |
| Parent Title (German): | EthnoScripts : Zeitschrift für aktuelle ethnologische Studien |
| Publisher: | Verlag der SUB Hamburg, Hamburg University Press |
| Place of publication: | Hamburg |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2019/09/18 |
| Date of first Publication: | 2019/09/18 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2022/05/18 |
| Tag: | Heimat; belonging; post-home; postmemoryv |
| Volume: | 21 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Page Number: | 18 |
| First Page: | 196 |
| Last Page: | 212 |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 495857459 |
| Institutes: | Gesellschaftswissenschaften / Gesellschaftswissenschaften |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 30 Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie / 300 Sozialwissenschaften |
| 7 Künste und Unterhaltung / 74 Zeichnung, angewandte Kunst / 741.5 Comics, Cartoons, Karikaturen | |
| Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - Namensnennung-Weitergabe unter gleichen Bedingungen 4.0 |
