Remembering Anne Frank: Marjorie Agosín’s Multidirectional Feminist Postmemory
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Dalia Wassner
Abstract
Chilean Jewish author, professor, and human rights activist, Marjorie Agosín ties her own fate to that of Anne Frank through a multi-genre literary alignment spanning twenty years. The article traces the mechanisms by which Agosín engages the social, political, and cultural preconditions for catastrophe, whereby systemic violations against humanity are effected through a precursing systemic breakdown of meaning and human connection. Engaging contemporary scholarship on trauma memory-with trauma defined as the psychic and physical effects of catastrophe-this article approaches the intersection of historical fact and transnational memory in Agosín’s work, understood here as “feminist multidirectional postmemory.”
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- Title
- Table of Contents
- Introduction to the Special Issue on Jewish Latin American Women Writers, Filmmakers, and Characters
- ARTICLES
- Latin American Jewish Documentaries by Women: An Emerging Genre
- Diana Raznovich and the Performance of Performance: Gender, Jewishness, and the Conundrum of Identity
- Jenny Asse Chayo: Gender Fluidity, Visionary Discourse, and Biblical Narrative
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- Jewish Women in Argentine Cinema: The Transgressive Bride in Damián Szifrón’s Relatos salvajes (2014)
- Remembering Anne Frank: Marjorie Agosín’s Multidirectional Feminist Postmemory
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- Donà Lauterbach, Chiara. 2023. Materialidad insumisa. Lo fragmentario, lo nimio y lo abyecto en la obra de Margo Glantz
- Guzmán, Gustavo E. 2022. Attitudes of the Chilean Right toward Jews: From Acceptable Undesirables to Respected Businessmen
- Rein, Raanan, and David M. K. Sheinin, eds. 2021. Armed Jews in the Americas
- Visacovsky, Nerina, ed. 2022. Cultura judeo-progresista en las Américas
- Yalonetzky, Romina. 2021. Gente como uno: Class, Belonging, and Transnationalism in Jewish Life in Lima
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