POSTMEMORY IN JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER'S EVERYTHING IS ILLUMINATED
POSTMEMORY IN JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER'S EVERYTHING IS ILLUMINATED

Summary/Abstract: Postmemory represents the strong connection between Holocaust survivors and the members of the second and the third generation post-trauma. The children or grandchildren of Shoah survivors have a special connection with the past of their parents or grandparents because they grew-up in families in which this traumatic event was considered a tabu subject. Jonathan Safran Foer is a representative writer for what we may call the third generation literature because Everything is Illuminated, his first novel, explores his travel in Ukraine in order to find out details about his grandfather, a Holocaust survivor.

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