Holocaust graphic narratives : generation, trauma, and memory / Victoria Aarons

Includes bibliographical references and index

Introduction: Holocaust graphic narratives: visual testimonies of memory -- The performance of memory: Miriam Katin's we are on our own -- A child survivor's (auto) biographical memoir -- Memory frames: Mendel's daughter, a second-generation perspective -- "Replacing absence with memory": Bernice Eisenstein's graphic memoir -- I was the child of Holocaust survivors -- Flying couch: a third-generation tapestry of memory -- Yossel: April 19, 1943: possible histories -- Visual landscapes of memory: fracturing time and space -- Epilogue: an inheritance of memory.

"Holocaust Graphic Narratives examines Holocaust graphic novels and memoirs, analyzing the genre as one that enables intergenerational transmission of trauma and memory. Here, the graphic novel becomes a medium uniquely positioned to create a sense of felt immediacy, urgency, and authenticity at the intersection of history and the imagination"--