Haunting spectres of World War II memories from a transgenerational ethical perspective in Miriam Katin’s<i>We Are on Our Own</i>and<i>Letting It Go</i>

Mihăilescu, Dana

doi:10.1080/21504857.2015.1027940

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“…While there exist a handful of colorful panels in Katin's graphic narrative, all of which have to do with Lisa's and Esther's future refuge, i.e., the United States of America, the rest of We Are On Our Own is held in black and white. "Delicate scenes", writes Dana Mihăilescu (2015) in her essay "Haunting Spectres of World War II Memories from a Transgenerational Ethical Perspective in Miriam Katin's We Are On Our Own and Letting It Go", are "drawn in heavy pencil lines" (Mihăilescu 2015, p. 167), demonstrating the author's inner conflict when imagining her mother's experiences during the war in Hungary.…”

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Specters of the Past: Transgenerational Memory in Miriam Katin’s Graphic Memoirs We Are On Our Own and Letting It Go

Schlosser

2020

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This paper thematizes the topic of the eyewitness report based on Miriam Katin’s transgenerational point of view on the Holocaust, which has a cathartic impact on the author through self-reflexivity. In We Are On Our Own, Miriam Katin draws on her own cultural and transgenerational memory, which is heavily influenced by her mother. The author unveils her parents’ story and elaborates on how she, as the child of Holocaust survivors, has dealt with the atrocities of the Holocaust throughout her life. In her second memoir, Letting It Go, Katin expands this point of view and not only addresses the Holocaust from the view of the second generation, but adds another layer to dealing with the Nazi past, namely the point of view of the third generation. Accordingly, it is through Katin’s son, Ilan, that Miriam learns not to encounter Berlin stereotypically and embittered anymore. Modern day Berlin welcomes Katin and her family with open arms and is not comparable with the former capital of National Socialism anymore. Therefore, both graphic memoirs can be regarded as a process of coming to terms with the trauma of the Holocaust through the technique of self-reflexivity.

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Specters of the Past: Transgenerational Memory in Miriam Katin’s Graphic Memoirs We Are On Our Own and Letting It Go

Schlosser

2020

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Discourses of Trauma and Representation: Motherhood and Mother Tongue in Miriam Katin’s Graphic Memoirs

Szép¹

2020

Palgrave Studies in Comics and Graphic Novels

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Dialogic Memories in Graphic Narratives: Intergenerational Entanglements of Witnessing, Trauma and Vulnerability

Mitroiu

2023

Parallax

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Haunting spectres of World War II memories from a transgenerational ethical perspective in Miriam Katin’sWe Are on Our OwnandLetting It Go

Cited by 4 publications

References 9 publications

Specters of the Past: Transgenerational Memory in Miriam Katin’s Graphic Memoirs We Are On Our Own and Letting It Go

Specters of the Past: Transgenerational Memory in Miriam Katin’s Graphic Memoirs We Are On Our Own and Letting It Go

Discourses of Trauma and Representation: Motherhood and Mother Tongue in Miriam Katin’s Graphic Memoirs

Dialogic Memories in Graphic Narratives: Intergenerational Entanglements of Witnessing, Trauma and Vulnerability

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