Translated Memories: Transgenerational Perspectives on the Holocaust - Paperback

by Bettina Hofmann (Editor), Anne Ranasinghe (Contribution by), Bettina Hofmann (Contribution by)

This book engages with cultural memory in literature and other media of the second and third generations of Holocaust survivors who are confronted with language loss, language acquisition and multiple issues of translation of inherited and received cultural memory.

Author Biography

Bettina Hofmann teaches American studies at the University of Wuppertal. She recently co-edited the volumes Life Writing: Lives in Focus of Praxis English and Performing Ethnicity, Performing Gender: Transcultural Perspectives. Ursula Reuter is director of Germania Judaica, Köln Library on the History of German Jewry.