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Marianne Hirsch
Marianne Hirsch introduces to us a new word, postmemory, in her essay "Holocaust Photographs in Personal and Public Fantasy." Hirsch defines postmemory as when a child of a survivor of a cultural trauma remembers stories because of what their parents told them. Hirsch, being a child of a survivor of the Holocaust, has many postmemories from her parents. Postmemory is like receiving a memory from someone else. It's a memory that you did not witness yourself but were told by someone else, and after hearing their memory you feel as if it happened to you. A postmemory is something you may never get to live. Usually, a postmemory is something that happened that is very traumatic and affected many people.
When you think of a memory you think of something happy or something good that happened. But then what is postmemory? Postmemory is really different, because I think with postmemory most people remember the things that are the most traumatic and that affect the many people. For example, in history class what we are taught and what most of us remember is when people die, not all the good stuff like when they get married or how much money they have to their name. Also, I remember how many people died at war not how many survived. Remembering all the traumatic events are probably not a good thing for some people, because then all they do is worry about it and thinks that it is going to happen to them. For example, after 9/11 and the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center everyone was so scared to fly because a terrorist could take over their plane. Or some people wouldn't go shopping at the Mega Mall in Minneapolis because that might be the terrorist's next target.
In addition to postmemory being a bad memory, if it involves children it makes the memory seem more traumatic. A person always seems to remember the thing that happen to children and these events tend to stick in your mind a little more than...
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