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Post-memory

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The “post-memory” is defined as this underground and enigmatic memory, both intimate and collective which characterizes the transmission of historical trauma to generations that did not leave it.

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Lexcellent, C. (2019). Post-memory. In: Human Memory and Material Memory. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99543-4_10

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