Positionality and Postmemory in Scholarship on the Holocaust on JSTOR

Women in German Yearbook

Description: Women in German Yearbook is a refereed publication presenting a wide range of feminist approaches to all aspects of German literature, culture, and language, including pedagogy. Reflecting the interdisciplinary perspectives that inform feminist German studies, each issue contains critical inquiries employing gender and other analytical categories to examine the work, history, life, literature, and arts of the German-speaking world.

Coverage: 1985-2017 (Vol. 1 - Vol. 33)

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ISSN: 10587446

EISSN: 1940512X

Subjects: Feminist & Women's Studies, Social Sciences

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Abstract

For scholars who work within German literature and culture of the twentieth century, the topic of the Holocaust is hard to ignore. The confrontation with this topic is a complex one, however, as the magnitude of its severity and the scale of its brutality make the Holocaust difficult to approach neutrally. Through a discussion of the feminist concept of positionality, the notion of "autobiographical reading," and the concept of "postmemory," this essay examines critically the issue of personal investment in the study of the Holocaust, and the particular role that positionality, personal and cultural memory, and identification and empathy play in this work.

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