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Turning Herod’s Children into Jakob’s Children. Cross-generational perspectives in conceptuaizing memory and history through the perspective of “being a child”.

    Christine Ivanovic

Sprachkunst Jahrgang XLIX/2018, 2. Halbband, pp. 91-110, 2019/09/16

Beiträge zur Literaturwissenschaft
Jahrgang XLIX/2018, 2. Halbband

doi: 10.1553/spk49_2s91

doi: 10.1553/spk49_2s91


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doi:10.1553/spk49_2s91



doi:10.1553/spk49_2s91

Abstract

Immediately after the end of the Second World War, the Austrian writer Ilse Aichinger, herself a survivor of the Holocaust, conveys both individual and collective trauma by using child protagonists as bearers of ›The Greater Hope‹ in her novel of that title (1948). More than half a century later, the British artist Ruth Rix, the only daughter of Ilse’s twin sister Helga, who found refuge in England as part of the Kindertransport, re-collects the fragments of her family’s memory. This article investigates the perspective of ‘being a child’ as a condition for the transference of memory.