Marianne Hirsch is professor emerita of comparative literature and gender studies at Columbia University and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She writes about the transmission of memories of violent histories across generations, a process she has termed “postmemory.”
Marianne Hirsch
By Marianne Hirsch
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