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Surviving a Distant Past: A Case Study of the Cultural Construction of Trauma Descendant Identity
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Despite the abundance of psychological studies on trauma related ills of descendants of historical trauma, and the extensive scholarly work describing the memory politics of silenced traumatic pasts, there has yet to emerge a critical analysis of the constitutive practices of descendants of historical trauma. This article presents an ethnographic account of a support group for descendants of Holocaust survivors, proposing that the discursive frame of intergenerational transmission of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and support group based narrative practices allow descendants to fashion their sense of self as survivors of the distant traumatic past. The discursive frame of transmitted PTSD acts as both a mnemonic bridge to the past and a mechanism of identity making, as participants narratively reemplot their life stories as having been personally constituted by the distant past A close ethnographic reading of on‐site discursive practices points to how culture ferments to produce narratives, practices and ultimately carriers of memory to both sustain and revitalize historical grand narratives and the cultural scenarios they embed.
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“This emphasis on the unblemished healthy body, which recurs in various situations all through the individual’s life span [36], emanates partly from the collective memory of the Holocaust [44], but also from the Zionist ideology of the “new Jew” [45].”
From The person in the disabled body: a perspective on culture and personhood from the margins (2016) · cites this paper as [44]
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- Authors
- Kidron, C. A.
- Affiliations
- Hebrew University of Jerusalem (IL)
- Corresponding author
- Kidron, Carol A.
- ORCID
- Kidron, Carol A.
- Venue
- Ethos
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2003-12
- Volume
- 31
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 513-544
- ISSN
- 0091-2131 (ISSN-L)
- 1548-1352
- OpenAlex
- W2085925869
- Cited by
- 127
- References
- 64
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 8.21
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Ethos (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Cultural Studies › Memory, History, Trauma, Identity
- Social Sciences › Cultural Studies › Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History › Memory, violence, and history
- Keywords
- descendants of Holocaust survivors, historical trauma, intergenerational transmission, post-traumatic stress disorder, support groups, identity construction, memory politics, narrative practice, self-creation, collective memory, Holocaust memory
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