Survivor Café: The Legacy of Trauma and the Labyrinth of

Survivor Café: The Legacy of Trauma and the Labyrinth of Memory

Named a Best Book of the Year by The San Francisco Chronicle

"Survivor CafÃ©...feels like the book Rosner was born to write. Each page is imbued with urgency, with sincerity, with heartache, with heartâ€¦. Her words, alongside the words of other survivors of atrocity and their descendants across the globe, can help us build a more humane world." â€•San Francisco Chronicle

As firsthand survivors of many of the twentieth century's most monumental eventsâ€•the Holocaust, Hiroshima, the Killing Fieldsâ€•begin to pass away, Survivor CafÃ© addresses urgent questions: How do we carry those stories forward? How do we collectively ensure that the horrors of the past are not forgotten?

Elizabeth Rosner organizes her book around three trips with her father to Buchenwald concentration campâ€•in 1983, in 1995, and in 2015â€•each journey an experience in which personal history confronts both commemoration and memorialization. She explores the echoes of similar legacies among descendants of African American slaves, descendants of Cambodian survivors of the Killing Fields, descendants of survivors of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the effects of 9/11 on the general population. Examining current brain research, Rosner depicts the efforts to understand the intergenerational inheritance of trauma, as well as the intricacies of remembrance in the aftermath of atrocity. Survivor CafÃ© becomes a lens for numerous constructs of memoryâ€•from museums and commemorative sites to national reconciliation projects to small-group cross-cultural encounters.

Beyond preserving the firsthand testimonies of participants and witnesses, individuals and societies must continually take responsibility for learning the painful lessons of the past in order to offer hope for the future. Survivor CafÃ© offers a clear-eyed sense of the enormity of our twenty-first-century human inheritanceâ€•not only among direct descendants of the Holocaust but also in the shape of our collective responsibility to learn from tragedy, and to keep the ever-changing conversations alive between the past and the present.
Country USA
Brand Counterpoint
Manufacturer Counterpoint
Binding Hardcover
Color Cream
ReleaseDate 2017-09-12
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781619029545

Country	USA
Brand	Counterpoint
Manufacturer	Counterpoint
Binding	Hardcover
Color	Cream
ReleaseDate	2017-09-12
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781619029545

Survivor Café: The Legacy of Trauma and the Labyrinth of Memory

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