Project

Across Generations and Genres: The Legacy of the Holocaust in Dutch-Jewish Literature

Code
01D25915
Duration
01 October 2015 → 30 September 2017
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Research disciplines
  • Humanities
    • History
    • Language studies
    • Literary studies
    • Theory and methodology of language studies
    • Theory and methodology of linguistics
    • Theory and methodology of literary studies
    • Other languages and literary studies
Keywords
transmission of trauma Holocaust postmemory representation
 
Project description

By analyzing a differentiated body of texts, written by members of three successive generations of three different Dutch families who were affected by the historical trauma of the Holocaust, this research project aims to examine both how the phenomenon of trauma and its transmission is represented in the given texts and how this translates into their formal and generic construction.