Faculty Colloquium Series: Ashley Passmore (INTS) 03/30/2021
“Future Memory: Articulations of Transgenerational Jewish Memory Before and After the Shoah”
Zoom Meeting information:
Meeting ID: 954 8693 2248
Password: Passmore
https://tamu.zoom.us/j/95486932248?pwd=dE9mb3I5c0NBZFNsbnZseHFseEFmdz09
Dr. Ashley Passmore
Assistant Professor, International Studies, 2020-21 Glasscock Faculty Research Fellow
Abstract:
This project looks at the internal Jewish debates on inherited memory across generations before and after the Shoah, particularly in the context of German-language literature and cultural production. From the “applied evolutionism” of inherited memory in Jewish novels of the late 19th century to the after-life of traumatic memory that imbues second and third generation Holocaust narratives as postmemory (Marianne Hirsch), Jewish speculation about the mechanisms of transmission of Jewish experience has remained constant in the modern era despite profound historical ruptures in the European Jewish experience. This paper is a section of the project that looks at the early 20th century Viennese Jewish writer, Richard Beer-Hofmann (1866-1945), and his literary metaphor of blood as one such harbinger of inherited memory in the Jewish context.
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