Palgrave Macmillan | Those Who Come After: Postmemory, Acknowledgement And Forgiveness (2019 EN)

Author: Stephen Frosh
Full Title: Those Who Come After: Postmemory, Acknowledgement And Forgiveness
Publisher: ‎ Palgrave Macmillan; 1st ed. 2019 edition (April 13, 2019)
Year: 2019
ISBN-13: 9783030148539 (978-3-030-14853-9), 9783030148522 (978-3-030-14852-2), 9783030148553 (978-3-030-14855-3)
ISBN-10: 303014853X, 3030148521, 3030148556
Pages: 246
Language: English
Genre: Psychology: Psychosocial Studies
File type: EPUB (True), PDF (True)
Quality: 10/10
Price: 85.59 €


This book explores the legacies of suffering in relation to ‘those who come after’ – the descendants of victims, survivors and perpetrators of traumatic events. It draws on recent discussions of ‘postmemory’ and ‘haunting’ that are concerned mainly with the transgenerational impact of personal and social trauma. It examines how we are connected to past events for which we have no direct responsibility yet in which we might in some way be ‘implicated’ and it asks how we might attain a position of active witnessing that helps resolve the suffering of others. Those Who Come After includes vivid accounts of witnessing from a variety of perspectives, ranging from Biblical and Jewish stories to contemporary art and music. The book draws on psychosocial studies and psychoanalysis to help make sense of this material and to develop an understanding of acknowledgment and responsibility that is both ethical and emancipatory. Those Who Come After will be of great interest to readers in psychosocial studies and psychoanalysis and to all who are concerned with the question of how to put past suffering to rest.


Overview:
✓ Discusses how to learn from the recent past in order not to repeat its devastating effects
✓ Investigates ideas of relevance to trauma studies, psychoanalysis, memory studies, postcolonial studies and psychosocial studies
✓ Confronts a question with broad ramifications in Holocaust studies, the legacies of slavery, genocides, and authoritarian violence

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