I first used the term “postmemory” in an article on Art Spiegelman’s Maus ... Marianne Hirsch was born in Romania after the Second World War and immigrated to ...
Marianne Hirsch is a professor of comparative literature and gender studies at Columbia University. Her most recent books are, with Leo Spitzer, Ghosts of Home: The ...
Marianne Hirsch; Columbia University ... this essay elucidates the generation of postmemory and its reliance on photography as a primary medium of transgenerational ...