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Survivor Café: The Legacy of Trauma and the Labyrinth of Memory
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ISBN-13:
9781640091078
Veröffentl:
2018
Erscheinungsdatum:
04.09.2018
Seiten:
288
Autor:
Elizabeth Rosner
Gewicht:
300 g
Format:
208x139x25 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Elizabeth Rosner is the author of three novels and a poetry collection. The Speed of Light was translated into nine languages and won several awards in the US and in Europe, including being shortlisted for the prestigious Prix Femina. Blue Nude was named among the best books of 2006 by the San Francisco Chronicle. Electric City was named among the best books of 2014 by NPR. Her essays and reviews have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Elle, the San Francisco Chronicle and others. She lives in Berkeley, CA.
As featured in The New York Times, a bold nonfiction title that examines the ways that survivors and post-war generations deal with traumatic experiences. After Elizabeth Rosner visited Buchenwald concentration camp, she explored similar legacies among descendants of African American slaves, Cambodian survivors of the Killing Fields, the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the effects of 9/11.
A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year
An impressive, highly readable exploration of atrocity, trauma, and memory that examines the legacies of the Holocaust, Hiroshima, and other mass trauma events a powerful book (Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Sympathizer).
As firsthand survivors of many of the 20th century s most monumental events the Holocaust, Hiroshima, the Killing Fields begin to pass away, Survivor Cafe addresses urgent questions: How do we carry those stories forward? How do we collectively ensure that the horrors of the past are not forgotten?
Elizabeth Rosner organizes her book around three trips with her father to Buchenwald concentration camp in 1983, in 1995, and in 2015 each journey an experience in which personal history confronts both commemoration and memorialization. She explores the echoes of similar legacies among descendants of African American slaves, descendants of Cambodian survivors of the Killing Fields, descendants of survivors of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the effects of 9/11 on the general population. Examining current brain research, Rosner depicts the efforts to understand the intergenerational inheritance of trauma, as well as the intricacies of remembrance in the aftermath of atrocity. Survivor Cafe becomes a lens for numerous constructs of memory from museums and commemorative sites to national reconciliation projects to small group cross cultural encounters.
Beyond preserving the firsthand testimonies of participants and witnesses, individuals and societies must continually take responsibility for learning the painful lessons of the past in order to offer hope for the future. Survivor Cafe offers a clear eyed sense of the enormity of our 21st-century-human inheritance not only among direct descendants of the Holocaust but also in the shape of our collective responsibility to learn from tragedy, and to keep the ever changing conversations alive between the past and the present.
Each page is imbued with urgency, with sincerity, with heartache, with heart . . . [Rosner s] words, alongside the words of other survivors of atrocity and their descendants across the globe, can help us build a more humane world.
San Francisco Chronicle
An impressive, highly readable exploration of atrocity, trauma, and memory that examines the legacies of the Holocaust, Hiroshima, and other mass trauma events a powerful book (Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Sympathizer).
As firsthand survivors of many of the 20th century s most monumental events the Holocaust, Hiroshima, the Killing Fields begin to pass away, Survivor Cafe addresses urgent questions: How do we carry those stories forward? How do we collectively ensure that the horrors of the past are not forgotten?
Elizabeth Rosner organizes her book around three trips with her father to Buchenwald concentration camp in 1983, in 1995, and in 2015 each journey an experience in which personal history confronts both commemoration and memorialization. She explores the echoes of similar legacies among descendants of African American slaves, descendants of Cambodian survivors of the Killing Fields, descendants of survivors of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the effects of 9/11 on the general population. Examining current brain research, Rosner depicts the efforts to understand the intergenerational inheritance of trauma, as well as the intricacies of remembrance in the aftermath of atrocity. Survivor Cafe becomes a lens for numerous constructs of memory from museums and commemorative sites to national reconciliation projects to small group cross cultural encounters.
Beyond preserving the firsthand testimonies of participants and witnesses, individuals and societies must continually take responsibility for learning the painful lessons of the past in order to offer hope for the future. Survivor Cafe offers a clear eyed sense of the enormity of our 21st-century-human inheritance not only among direct descendants of the Holocaust but also in the shape of our collective responsibility to learn from tragedy, and to keep the ever changing conversations alive between the past and the present.
Each page is imbued with urgency, with sincerity, with heartache, with heart . . . [Rosner s] words, alongside the words of other survivors of atrocity and their descendants across the globe, can help us build a more humane world.
San Francisco Chronicle