Konstrukcje pamięci: „postpamięć” Marianne Hirsch, postpamięć Christiana Boltanskiego
The Constructions of Memory: the „Postmemory” of Marianne Hirsch, the Postmemory of Christian Boltanski

Summary/Abstract: A presentation of the category of „postmemory” and an attempt at studying its usefulness as an interpreta- tion instrument. Marianne Hirsch, the author of the conception of „postmemory”, claims that it describes the experience of „mediated memory” (constructed post factum, upon the basis of narration and images), which is not encompassed by the traditional philoso- phy of memory. The interesting but theoretically non- -cohesive construction proposed by Hirsch is confron- ted with the works of Christian Boltanski – an artist whose oeuvre embarks upon an attempt at recreating lost memories and, at the same time, via anumber of assorted operations, aptly diagnoses the very essence of mediated memory. The outcome of this confronta- tion is averification of the premises formulated by Marianne Hirsch, the outfitting of her conceptions with astrictly theoretical framework, and, finally, the re-formulation of the definition of „postmemory”.

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