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POSTMEMORIAL STRUCTURES: PORTRAITS OF SURVIVOR-FAMILY HOMES IN SECOND-GENERATION HOLOCAUST LITERATURE AND ORAL HISTORY
Title
POSTMEMORIAL STRUCTURES: PORTRAITS OF SURVIVOR-FAMILY HOMES IN SECOND-GENERATION HOLOCAUST LITERATURE AND ORAL HISTORY.
Creator
Wilson, Lucas Frederick William, Berger, Alan L., Florida Atlantic University, Department of Languages, Linguistics and Comparative Literature, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Abstract/Description
This study demonstrates the relationship between intergenerational trauma and domestic space, specifically focusing on how Holocaust survivors’ homes became extensions of their traumatized psyches that their children “inhabited.” Based on my analysis of literature and oral histories of the second generation, my project employs the theory of postmemory to demonstrate how the spatial and temporal conditions of survivor-family homes, along with the domestic practices and objects contained...
Show moreThis study demonstrates the relationship between intergenerational trauma and domestic space, specifically focusing on how Holocaust survivors’ homes became extensions of their traumatized psyches that their children “inhabited.” Based on my analysis of literature and oral histories of the second generation, my project employs the theory of postmemory to demonstrate how the spatial and temporal conditions of survivor-family homes, along with the domestic practices and objects contained therein, rendered these domestic milieus spaces of traumatic contagion. Postmemorial structures often functioned as spaces that afforded few illusions of familial permanency, thereby familiarizing survivors’ children with an intimate and pervading fear of external threat at a young age, which challenged or precluded feelings of parental protection and refuge within the domestic. I discuss the ways by which the second generation’s inherited perceptions of space—along with their inherited perception of matter and time— structured and structure their perceptions of their domestic lives. This study explores how, in turn, postmemorial structures shaped and shape the second generation’s inherited perceptions of space, matter, and time. As survivors’ traumas were registered in the very space of their homes, their homes functioned as material archives of their Holocaust pasts, creating domestic environments that commonly also wounded their children. In addition to survivors’ unspoken traumas, their spoken narratives of the Holocaust were also imbued in the space of postmemorial structures to such an extent that these homes became the very “framework” or “architecture” of their psychosocial lives. I argue that insofar as survivor-family homes were imaginatively transformed by survivors’ children into the sites of their parents’ traumas—whether they were concentration camps, ghettoes, places of hiding, etc.—their domestic spaces became central technologies that catalyzed and perpetuated the intergenerational transmission of Holocaust trauma and embodied experience. I further argue that the ways by which they describe their home lives constitute indirect expressions of their belated relationships to the Holocaust.
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Date Issued
2022
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00014013
Subject Headings
Holocaust survivors in literature, Children of Holocaust survivors, Generational trauma
Format
Document (PDF)
STUDY OF THE CHILD IN FIVE GEORGE ELIOT NOVELS
Title
A STUDY OF THE CHILD IN FIVE GEORGE ELIOT NOVELS.
Creator
BUBIS, RITA S., Florida Atlantic University, Coyle, William
Abstract/Description
To appreciate and understand the child's perspective is George Eliot's objective and achievement in many of her novels. Her sympathetic attitude towards children, which was strongly influenced by Wordsworth's idealization of childhood, is expressed in four ways: 1) the child's appearance, actions, speech, and thoughts; 2) anecdotes and comments in which George Eliot speaks directly to the reader; 3) the attitude of adults toward children and their own childhood; and 4) child imagery. In Eliot...
Show moreTo appreciate and understand the child's perspective is George Eliot's objective and achievement in many of her novels. Her sympathetic attitude towards children, which was strongly influenced by Wordsworth's idealization of childhood, is expressed in four ways: 1) the child's appearance, actions, speech, and thoughts; 2) anecdotes and comments in which George Eliot speaks directly to the reader; 3) the attitude of adults toward children and their own childhood; and 4) child imagery. In Eliot's early novels children are frequently the main characters; in her late novels the child is depicted in retrospect, as an adult character recalls childhood.
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Date Issued
1983
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14161
Subject Headings
Eliot, George,--1819-1880--Characters--Children, Children in literature
Format
Document (PDF)
Reclaiming Wonder
Title
Reclaiming Wonder.
Creator
Barreneche, Ingrid M., Broderick, Amy S., Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Visual Arts and Art History
Abstract/Description
I believe art can offer an antidote to our numbness and rekindle a sense of childlike wonder. Reclaiming Wonder is an installation in which I aim to explore the possibility of evoking the curiosity of childhood in the viewer’s mind and transporting him or her into a dreamlike atmosphere to wander about in wonder through the use of the senses of sight, touch, and hearing.
Date Issued
2017
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004863, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004863
Subject Headings
Semiotics and literature., Wonder in children., Philosophy of nature., Nature study., Discourse analysis., Symbolism in literature., Spiritual life.
Format
Document (PDF)
Flannery O'Connor's prepubescents: Two on a pedestal
Title
Flannery O'Connor's prepubescents: Two on a pedestal.
Creator
Thompson, Joan Elaine., Florida Atlantic University, Pearce, Howard D.
Abstract/Description
Flannery O'Connor wrote two stories about antisocial twelve-year-old girls, who live in fractured households where they have little contact with males. In "Temple of the Holy Ghost," the unnamed child is comfortable in her perceived intellectual superiority and allows her imagination to keep her on a cerebral pedestal. The angry Sally Virginia in "A Circle in the Fire" takes refuge in a second-floor window, but later descends for a physical confrontation with three boys threatening the secure...
Show moreFlannery O'Connor wrote two stories about antisocial twelve-year-old girls, who live in fractured households where they have little contact with males. In "Temple of the Holy Ghost," the unnamed child is comfortable in her perceived intellectual superiority and allows her imagination to keep her on a cerebral pedestal. The angry Sally Virginia in "A Circle in the Fire" takes refuge in a second-floor window, but later descends for a physical confrontation with three boys threatening the secure world run by her tyrannical mother. Both girls gain spiritual knowledge: the "Temple" child comes to recognize the sanctity of the female body, while Sally Virginia discovers the familial misery inherent in all people. But Sally Virginia includes both males and females in her understanding of human suffering, while the "Temple" child remains spiritually flawed because of a smugness that equates only females with purity.
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Date Issued
1996
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15259
Subject Headings
O'Connor, Flannery--Criticism and interpretation, Children in literature
Format
Document (PDF)
children of Flannery O'Connor: Child of quest and child of grace
Title
The children of Flannery O'Connor: Child of quest and child of grace.
Creator
Wolff, Gay H., Florida Atlantic University, Pearce, Howard D.
Abstract/Description
O'Connor reveals glimpses of innocence in her child characters before they are brought to a point of being confronted by the discrepancies of this world, when they must distinguish and choose between the good and evil forces of nature. The child who accepts spiritual values is the child of grace and the child of quest is the one who chooses worldly temptations, instead. The dilemma of O'Connor's adult sinners is illuminated by recognizing their origins in these two child types. This parallel...
Show moreO'Connor reveals glimpses of innocence in her child characters before they are brought to a point of being confronted by the discrepancies of this world, when they must distinguish and choose between the good and evil forces of nature. The child who accepts spiritual values is the child of grace and the child of quest is the one who chooses worldly temptations, instead. The dilemma of O'Connor's adult sinners is illuminated by recognizing their origins in these two child types. This parallel is exemplified by a comparison of child and adult characters in The Violent Bear It Away and "The River." By taking a closer look at the first temptations of evil and the offerings of grace in O'Connor's children, we can recognize the mistakes of her adult sinners more clearly.
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Date Issued
1991
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14696
Subject Headings
O'Connor, Flannery--Criticism and interpretation, Children in literature
Format
Document (PDF)